This had not been Scarlett's idea. She was trying to be optimistic about it, because she hadn't met many people outside of work lately and a blind date was sort of like an adventure from a certain point of view, but just in case it didn't work out she wanted to keep in mind that it had really been Zoe's fault. Unless it went wrong for reasons that she couldn't possibly blame on Zoe, but, well. Optimism.
Truth be told, she wouldn't normally have let herself be roped into this at all no matter how insistent Zoe got—she was used to fending her off by now—but maybe what her love life needed was a different approach. An unexpected approach. The benefit of a blind date was that it had stopped her from doing too much planning, and her plans always seemed to fall apart pretty quickly, anyway, so maybe this was for the best.
It proved fairly simple to locate her date: she knew the park pretty well and "near a source of coffee" was usually a good bet for meeting anyone, and she had been given a description anyway. She hesitated for a moment as she approached, but overcame it quickly. She was already here and it was much too late to get cold feet, and hey, maybe this Corva had also been pushed into the whole blind date thing by an overenthusiastic friend. Although that was unlikely. But unlikely things were happening to her all the time these days, and, well...optimism?
"Hey!" she said. "You must be Corva, right?"