Three's A Crowd
Harker snapped out of it when he heard his voice.
"Hey, Harker. You need to drink your tea." Roland said. "Can you hold it yourself?"
He only realized now that he had finished the soup. Roland was at the door, while Mina and Joan were by his side. Mina was holding the tea cup that Roland had prepared. They had been calling out to him, but he only snapped out of it when he heard his best friend's voice.
"Oh…." He robotically took the cup and sipped it.
"Joan told us everything, if you weren't listening." He said. "I'll send my men right away to go after the Arctic Seer. They couldn't have gone that far yet, relatively speaking. They're probably still in the Arctic Ocean, that's what I'm sure of."
The tea tasted bitter. He had always made fun of Roland for liking bitter and bland things. He doesn't even add sugar or sweeteners to his coffee or spices in his food, and only eats sweets very rarely.