In Which Orientation Finishes Without Anyone Dying

This follows on from A Morning Of Things and runs to 2,923 words.

I was late to the lunch for Earth Sciences First Year students which was jointly sponsored by the Provincial Mining Industry Association and the Society of Registered Surveyors. Not so late that the first pass of diners past the buffet tables was done, but almost too late to thank the dignitaries for their organisations’ kind hospitality. The stout woman with hennaed hair and wearing dark reds instead of blacks, who was third and the last remaining in the reception line looked me up and down then said, “Who are you? I think that you and I are the only people in the room wearing silk.”

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This is now followed by Domesticity and Business.