[Well, this individual certainly knows what they want. And Lara can't help but smile as she takes a seat across from her.

Lara does not look elegant, really. A leather jacket, a simple shirt, and casual jeans mark her as more casual but her accent is very cultured, and her posture that of a noblewoman. Which, she is actually.]

Actually, it hasn't been consumed throughout the ages. Tea's origins in Europe are only three and a half centuries ago. And in Asia, it was not the drink of elites, but of everyone.

[Yes, this is how she opens a conversation.]