Chapter 8: Poe, the Educated Crow
After seeing off my new rock and roll bros, I turned my attention towards a very small narrow house near an old tree beside the house, I approached it and knocked on the door.
"Enter" an male upper class English accent answered.
I entered per the instructions given, and saw a crow wearing a top hat and a monocle.
"I am Poe" he said dramatically, extended his hand..NO wing to me.
"Pleasure" I answered shaking it "I'm Zaí".
"Oh splendid! Ruby informed me of your arrival, would you care for a cup of tea?" he asked.
"That'd be great" I answered politely. I could already tell that Poe was the only adult that occupied the mansion, and he was an upperclass English man..I MEAN crow.
After I got my tea, Poe struck up a conversation. "Did I ever tell you about the time I achieved the highest honour Oxford University ever had to offer?"
"How could you? You just met me today". I reminded him.
That made him chortle, me too...
"Well I once owned a hand towel that shall remain nameless due to a pending lawsuit..."
(2 Hours Later)
During Poe's story I had enough time to finish 3 FULL cups of tea!, I added the occasional "interesting" or "you don't say". Poe sure knew how to talk, but a trait we share is that he and I are both polite and well mannered, so you could imagine I couldn't have stopped him. Heck, before today I didn't even know towels could even file lawsuits!
When he had finally concluded his epic, I responded with "Wow, that was great".
"You liked it?, oh smashing" Poe responded "Reminds me of a time when Scaredy came to me and.." I cut him off.
"Scaredy?" I questioned.
"Oh you must not have met him yet?"
"Do you know where I can find him?" I asked.
After Poe gave me some directions I thanked him and headed off to meet my final new housemate.