Coffee Run

by siriuslocked

Eva works at a fancy coffee shop round the corner from New York's Avengers Tower, meaning she gets a lot of funny customers - and that the novelty's worn off. But, a day or so after the events in Sokovia, it's a new guy's turn to do the Earth's Mightiest Heroes' coffee run, and this one's different in more than just appearance. [Cover art by the lovely electricgale]

45. Chapter 45

Extract taken from the text messages on the phone of Eva Kresk:

From: Tall Glass of Water

Can I ask you a question? x

To: Tall Glass of Water

Fire away xx

From: Tall Glass of Water

I don't quite understand similes and metaphors. For example, Captain Rogers said something about a girl who was following us in Chile having stars in her eyes, but how can somebody's eyeballs contain massive balls of flaming gas? When somebody is being described as "like a storm", I do not see the resemblance.

To: Tall Glass of Water

Well I think the stars in her eyes 1 was more just a turn of phrase but um u know storms? theyre loud and dangerous and unpredictable but also u rly wanna watch them. so when a person is loud n dangerous n unpredictable n fascinating, u say theyre like a storm. it's not like the physical stuff a lot of the time, but what they make u feel.

From: Tall Glass of Water

In The Selfish Giant, the flowers are likened to stars, and the peach tree blossoms are "of pink and pearl". Could you explain those for me, please?

To: Tall Glass of Water

Sure, altho im not an english teacher lmao. similes are when u say smt is like smt else, so the flowers are like stars bc theyre little patches of brightness against the uniform grass yknow? metaphors tho are when u say smt IS smt else, like the blossom, bc it makes the picture more vivid in ur head. so when u read that bit, did u just imagine normal peach trees or beautiful exquisite things that dont seem properly natural but still u got the mental picture of all these colors and how the sun shone off them etc and you get that picture from less than a line of writing rather than like a paragraph of waffling

To: Tall Glass of Water

Did that make sense?

From: Tall Glass of Water

Yes, I rather think it did.

To: Tall Glass of Water

U got 2 think abt the essence of the thing the thing is being likened to rather than its physical propertys.

To: Tall Glass of Water

*properties oops lol xx apparently autocorrect doesnt always cover my ass

From: Tall Glass of Water

Thank you for explaining that. I must admit, it would have felt somewhat embarrassing asking one of the others.

To: Tall Glass of Water

I got ur back bby xx altho u should be proud of urself embarrassment is probably the most human emotion there is

From: Tall Glass of Water

I suppose all the pathos-based feelings such as love and fear and so on have always been somewhat overrated. x

To: Tall Glass of Water

Damn straight xx

A/N that feeling when you're 45 chapters into a fic about a girl who works at a coffee shop and only now remember that barista is a word... I'm dumb. Also in the "author is dumb" file: only very recently realised that the new HQ is in the STATE New York, not the CITY New York. American geography is weird, and we're just going to pretend the HQ is at the top end of Bronx, alright? Nobody say anything.