<span style="font-family:Viga">Her attention quickly turned to the newcomer when Adelaide realized that someone else had walked in who commanded more attention than she had. It was quite an interesting thing because in all of her experience - which really wasn’t much but still mattered anyway - Adelaide had never encountered someone whose attention seemed to so easily shift away from a reporter before. Usually people like Henri… actually, especially people like Henri… were overly attentive to reporters and even became on the edge of provocative around Adelaide when they learned that such a thing as a female reporter existed. It actually made her surprised that her boss didn’t seek out more of them because sometimes it seemed that people were more willing to talk to her. Then again, readers didn’t believe her articles as much as they believed things reported by others. Her boss knew that as well. <br/>
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It all wove into a complex web of decisions and values and labels of what was more important than anything else. She couldn’t claim to understand half of it, but it definitely influenced her understanding of many other people. <br/>
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Adelaide did find herself smiling brighter and brighter as she realized more and more that Henri was trying to tell his companion about her, though, and as she realized that he kept missing the point of what Henri was saying. She also didn’t realize right away, though, that she knew this new man. It wasn’t something she could ever manage to realize until he actually looked at her. And then when he did look at her, Adelaide realized that she had seen his face before. <br/>
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Standing up from her her seat at the bar, Adelaide walked up to him because now the world had perked her curiosity. She wasn’t one for coincidences. <br/>
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“Hello again,” she finally uttered. “Uhm… well, seeing that it’s you, I already know some of the story but…” but there were always bound to be more details that she couldn’t know without asking. “I’m here to get information on what happened last night and Henri said you would know more about it than he would.” She explained. She had to admit that even though she found the words flowing appropriately, she still found it odd that she had run into him again. It wasn’t something she had ever expected. <br/>
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“Uhm, would you be willing to tell me more about it… from your side? We could sit down and have a drink... “ It was an offer that she hoped would get her the story she needed, but more than that, Adelaide was curious now about him, more than she had been about anyone else in a very long time.</span>