Business League Meeting 1

The new Business league was to meet at Sparks tonight after business hours. Well, normal business hours, anyway. There wasn't a good time for all of the merchants to gather because their hours were all varied. When the idea had been proposed, Khaat had offered her space in Sparks and had offered to provide refreshments, no charge.

She had created a very ample and generous buffet of all of the items on her spring menu. She had placed the meeting in the large dining room with the buffet off to the side. She doublechecked to be sure that there were candles on all the one very long table she'd set up, to add some beautiful nighttime atmosphere to the dining room. She placed plenty of fresh flowers and made sure that there were extra desserts in the bakery for those who might want something different.

She merely wanted them to feel at home, so she had done her best to make the place look clean and light and fresh, with plenty of good food.

When she thought it was ready, she poured herself a glass of the new nonalcoholic sangria over plenty of ice, and walked around, double checking it all, waiting.

OOC: Okay, Guys, what did I miss in describing this meeting is at night? After business hours? How could I have described that better?

"Hello, Jess," Khaat smiled. She wasnt surprised Jess had been one of the first to arrive. "Thank you. Things are fine--so far,anyway."

She saw Mr. Manson enter. "Mr. Manson, Good evening! Its good to see you. I'm glad you could come. I've missed seeing you around. You're not interrupting anything. You're both free to help yourselves to the buffet. The entire spring menu is on the buffet, so you're free to take as much of whatever you want. Somehow, I find meetings generally are more pleasant over some sort of food.

"My hope for this is that we can come together and generate some idea for making our business areas more attractive to more people somehow. We all have businesses that have value to the wizarding world. We just need to find some ideas to get people more interested in coming."

"Good evening, Ne'Os," Khaat smiled. Khaat had some quirk that allowed her to generally look past almost anybody for what they did to her. Either that or it was utter stupidity. Still, the ill will that she had once felt towards Ne'Os had faded over time. There were others she was a lot more ready to forgive and move on with her life. He couldn't find the place? That wasn't the Ne'Os she knew. He had known very well where Sparks was and where she was. He had changed somehow.

"I'm glad you could make it. I haven't seen you in awhile. How are you?" She was cordial. There was time for her to catch up with him later. She motioned for him to follow through to the larger dining room where she had set up the meeting table and the buffet. "Help yourself. I have the entire spring menu out. There's plenty for you to have as much as you like."

"Your bar? Its called the Blood Bank, and its in Knockturn Alley. I wish I could say I have a key, but I don't. However," she grinned, "that rarely stops me from getting into someplace I really want to get into. I'm sure we can get you in when the meeting is over. In the meantime, make yourself at home. You'll find we don't serve alcohol, but we do have some decent food and drink.

"I really am hoping that we can encourage more business in the shops. I know the worldwide economy is hard fir muggles, or so they say, but it never has been very easy being a wizard either. Very precious few people have enough wealth that they don't have to worry. However, our shops are some of the few places where wizards can go to buy what they need at all. We need to find ways to encourage that. Maybe give people a place to have a little fun while they're at it."