It wouldn't be a very good show of gratitude if I didn't prepare it for you myself... Ah, but if you'd prefer, I can certainly just gift you with the tea leaves.

[ while she doesn't get any impression of hostility from him, what she assumes to be polite indifference is an expected reaction too, and a familiar one. if anything, the interest and personal regard she's been on the receiving end of from many other Restless is so unusual as to be disconcerting. she'd prefer help from strangers for a reason. ]

I'm Rudbeckia, by the way. I thought I would fix up some of the empty houses so that the newest of us would have lodging, but... [ she laughs, sheepish. ] I don't know what I would have done without your help. I've never tried to arrange anything like this myself, so I didn't even think of how I would get the materials to where they're needed.