"Please give me another glass of juice, thank you... Well, any flavor is OK, please, madam."
John held a real pie in his hand and nodded at the other party to show his gratitude. Although this thanks is somewhat hypocritical, John believes that it is necessary to pay attention to every detail here.
Looking at the so-called "Lady" with four arms and six legs silently leaving to get the juice, John took a bite of pie and chewed it slowly while continuing to look at the empty place.
This is a restaurant, magnificent but empty.
The "Lady" who was responsible for preparing food here was the one who served tea for him in the side hall. To be honest, when John came in and saw each other, he had no big surprise. Because he has long found that there are very few "people" in this Buckingham Palace. So although it's not clear why, John probably knows that he won't see too many faces that don't repeat next.
As for the "Lady" in charge of food and drink in the restaurant... Because the other party seems quite silent, John has excluded the other party from the target candidate of "communication and exploration" at the beginning, so he is not very interested in the other party.
Even if the other party's appearance is definitely the most... Er, how to say? The most special... No, perhaps it should be more honest here. It's one of the most "disgusting" looking corpses, none of them.
But rather than waste his mind on an object who seems completely unable to communicate, John is more willing to spend his energy on other breakthroughs... For example, the floating curtain he glimpsed in this upstairs before.
After estimating that the room where the window was located should be on the corridor around the corner, John thought about it and didn't rush to try to confirm anything. The reason has just been mentioned, because he found that the "people" in the palace are unusually rare - so that means that every "person" he can meet here deserves his careful treatment.
"Da."
Suddenly, a light noise from the bottom of a cup touching the table interrupted John's thoughts slightly.
"Oh, thank you."
Watching the other party put down a glass of juice, and then slowly retreated with one hand holding the empty tray, there was no additional response to John's thanks. John blinked and didn't say anything. He just reached out and took a sip of the drink full of orange juice.
The juice is not fresh. It drips through the tip of the tongue, leaving some slight turbidity and astringency. John didn't care where the juice came from, because it was mostly in the original inventory in Buckingham Palace. He could drink it if he could.
The "multi handed and multi legged" corpse lady did not seem to have any plans to stay. She probably nodded her "head" at John, and then "kicked" into the side door in the corner of the restaurant, perhaps back to her kitchen.
A moment later, John, who was still eating pie with juice in the restaurant, vaguely saw that the familiar figure that looked very scary flashed past the half open side door. The "Lady" seemed to be carrying something in one hand and went away alone.
"Well... Are you going to bring food to someone else? Maybe the one who lives in 'that room'?"
Although I can't say I'm very sure, if I guess correctly, it means... The living body in that room should not be a "living corpse" - now John knows that although the living corpses can eat and even learn to make a lot of desserts and delicious food, they don't depend on these human food.
So, without eating anything that will not affect survival and activities, these things that can only satisfy the appetite can probably only be classified as their little interest?
But human beings are different. If they don't eat or drink, Muggles, wizards... Or any other magical and non magical creatures will die.
"Are they Miss Granger of Hogwarts? If so, it means that the 'corpse lady' lied to me... And what does this mean? Don't want me to know that there are other humans here?"
Although it is certainly impossible to infer anything from this guess, even this guess may be wrong - maybe the other party just sent some wine and food to their "master" for entertainment?
"It's a bad feeling to know nothing! Can no one come and talk with me?" John drank the orange juice in his glass and smashed it in his mouth.
The restaurant was still empty except himself. The soliloquic voice seemed a little big. It echoed slightly in this huge hall, and then it returned to silence again.
John looked left and right, then shook his head alone - is it true that no one is watching himself in the dark?
"Maybe I think I'm too important." he shrugged and smiled at himself.
After hastily eating the pie on the plate, John left the front door of the restaurant without waiting for the scary looking "Lady" to return. Not long after, the other party passed by the side door with a food basket. When he saw that the restaurant was empty, he pushed the door and came in.
Just now John sat on the round table with some leftover meal plates and empty goblets. She quietly picked them up, put them into the food basket in her arms, and then turned out of the restaurant and left.
At a glance when he opened the rattan food basket, there was a pale head with dull eyes, occupying most of the space of the food basket.
If John could see it, he would feel very familiar, because the owner of this face is called "manster jonkel".
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Out of the restaurant, John didn't walk around, let alone an impulse. He gave up his caution and ran to a room to test something. He planned to go back to his room and have a rest.
But on the way, he stopped by the garden a little.
In fact, because most parts of Britain are in darkness for a long time now, and because the whole city of London has been frozen some time ago, most of the plants in Buckingham Palace garden, which was originally well cared for and beautiful, have already withered.
In short, there's nothing to see here.
So, of course, John didn't come to enjoy the beautiful scenery. He just wanted to have a good relationship with the dead girl "white night" in front of him.
At least in his opinion, this "girl" is probably the easiest to contact here, isn't it?