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Tonight Max and Miya are going back to the hateful World. It's only natural that you should have a chat with them before sending them home. There are some easily avoidable mistakes with mortal recruits you could have avoided if you had given it a bit more thought. At least you learned from them and can avoid them in the future.
You invite them to have tea before departure. It'll be an opportunity to hear their thoughts on their time in Camelot and maybe learn a few things from another perspective. You also want to make sure that they haven't gone widdershin' and thank them for taking the plunge and coming to Avalon. It is oddly reassuring knowing that humans will dare to come to your kingdom if you give them an opportunity. You just need to calibrate who to invite and how to retain them.
The loot from the antique shop did have scattered pieces of tea ceremony tools. Thanks to your <span class="mu-r">knowledge of quality tea ceremony tools and expertise in the art of tea</span>, it doesn't take long to assemble a set of tools that doesn't look too disparate. The odd collection has a uniquely pleasing aesthetic appeal when contrasted with the western-style iron kettle and tartan cloth spread over the grass in the Garden.
But there's only one Tea Bowl.
You'll have to invite each guest one at a time. This will be good to a certain extent; giving an individual personal attention tends to make them more positive; it makes them feel important, and you'll be able to observe if the Relic has some sort of effect on them individually.
You order normal sweets to be prepared to go with the green tea and some silver trinkets appropriate as a farewell gift. As much as you dislike Max for being a clueless and boorish idiot, it's gauche to only present silver to Miya and leave the other empty-handed.
The invitation to tea is a surprise to your departing mortals. They agree readily enough, with the fat teen Max being your first guest. You might as well train yourself to remember the meaning of the way of tea. Ichigo ichie. Each meeting is unique, never the same and never repeated. It is to be treasured.
Even if you dislike the boy and there's no chance to redo your first impression, maybe this moment having tea will reveal something important. It is a beautiful day, songbirds sing amongst the trees and Gates scattered throughout as the kettle of water boils away. You watch the bubbles carefully to ensure that the water doesn't get too hot.
Your first guest arrives. Maximilian the Great who looks unusually sombre and subdued. Initially, you guessed it's because of his failure to go widdershin' and become Blessed but his face tells a different reason. There's a number of bruises. The fat boy stops and marvels at the oddity of seeing something so Japanese set out in a strange place as Camelot.
"Ah, so exactly how does a tea ceremony go? I don't know anything about it."
"I'll teach you but first, those bruises... Who was it? Someone from the Longship Meeps?"
