Greta takes Anna to a hippie finger food place

"I thought that a small town in America away from coasts or big cities would be a place to get back to nature," Greta tells you. "So I moved to a commune out in the hills. Fifteen years later I am still here, but the only parts of the commune left are here in town. The restaurant." She taps her fingers on the rough-hewn wooden table top. "The co-op preschool which is now on the university campus." Greta gestures off into the distance beyond the window screens. "And my job. I ran so many meetings that I ended up getting a business communications degree and a certificate in facilitation. But there was a fire and that was the end of the place in the hills." She looks wistfully off into the distance. "Ah, there is our food. Danke, Ossi."

"One Mollie's Date Night spread for the table," your bearded waiter says. He's wearing a cotton bandanna tied over his hair and restraining his graying ponytail. "Long time no see, Greta. She a little young for you?"

Greta says, "Same old Ossi. Isn't that what Caroline said about me when I met you?"

"Oh, right in the heart, Greta, right in the heart. I'm so heartbroken I'm gonna have to send Susiecakes out instead." He retreats to the kitchen.

"As I said," Greta explains. "Ossi was the cook when I joined the commune. He gave me lots of practice in the gentle art of verbal self-defense."

A "Mollie's Date Night" is a platter of flat bread, an assortment of two-bite raw vegetable morsels, and a dish of roasted nuts and dried fruits with dipping sauces and shaker jars of mysterious spice blends.

"Is it called that because it has dates and nuts?" you ask Greta.

"It's named after a cookbook author who gave a radio interview about what she might serve to a date," Greta explains. "Finger food, lots of different tastes. Easy and tasty and not too heavy."

And then Greta turns the conversation into a deep dive on facilitation and cooperative meeting processes. The why of the processes is as fascinating as the how.

"People are complicated in ways I had never thought of," you tell Greta.

"Every day is a learning experience," she says. "I am grateful to have someone who is a good listener." Her eyes shift. "Are you all right, Anna?"

"I am still learning to take compliments."

There is a quiet minute.

Greta blinks. "Do I have something on my face?" she asks.

"Your chin." You reach out and dab a drop of dipping sauce off her chin and suck it off your finger. "This is a date. Isn't it?"

Roll +HOT(-1) to take things to somewhere more private: 5 - 1 = 4, Miss. Not today, but...

"This isn't a date," Greta says. "But next time could be. If you don't think you're too young for me."

"I would like that."

"Then it's a date," Greta says.

She drops you back at the apartment you share with Dot.

"Good night, Anna," she says.

"Good night, Greta."

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