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[standingonmyneck]

Type: Text

Sender ID: standingonmyneck

Subject: love is real

Warnings: true love incoming (claws and companions quest related)



(Everyone just sees this video on the network.)

real love exists

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[everblooms]

[ Daria has now interrupted Lilyliver's hunting. His eyes go wide, and his body still before he slaps the screen, hard and knocks the phone right over. Daria's always right.

Over the clamor comes a familiar voice: ] Oh, very funny, Lily. And were there mice in the phone, hm? [ The interior of her cabin, sparse as it is, has a few flowers left out, sitting and waiting to be potted, or perhaps pressed... and the device gets picked up, so Daria gets an eyeful of the florist herself. ]

What's this? Oh, no. It's a Magic 8 Ball. [ She's teasing. ]

[standingonmyneck]

Yeah, shake me and I’ll tell you the worst fortunes you ever heard. I dare you.

[She did get a look at her place. Of course she had this cottage girl thing going. It seemed to fit her.]

Nice flowers.

[everblooms]

[ Yeah, yeah she'll play along. ] Ooh, sounds fun. [ With a hum, she considers... ]

Am I gonna get my own flower cart again soon?

[ Since Daria mentioned the flowers. ]

[standingonmyneck]

Pay me a thousand doubloons for the answer.

[YOU WANNA PLAY THIS SHE’LL RIDE IT HOME.]

[everblooms]

Sure, if I can sell that many flowers. You said they're nice, right? I'll charge three a pop!

[standingonmyneck]

In that case, three thousand.

[everblooms]

Three thousand a flower? Really...? Well, the customer's always right! Consider it a done deal.

[standingonmyneck]

[Alright, alright. Funny jokes over.]

Seriously though, you’re selling?

I don’t know anything about being a florist but it seems you have a decent thing going.

[everblooms]

Well, I used to! It's a little hard to get a business going here at the moment. Maybe in the future. For money while I'm here, I've been hunting monsters, solving people's problems, that kind of think, mostly.

You interested? In floristry, I mean.

[standingonmyneck]

Interested enough that I wouldn’t mind being a customer once or twice.

Just don’t really charge three thousand a piece.

[everblooms]

[ She's oddly sweet. Aerith's impressed by the amount of charm this single message exudes. ]

Know what? I'll keep you on speed dial, then. And! Price will depend on the customer! So, you'll have your own special.

[standingonmyneck]

[NO SHE WASN'T TAKE THAT BACK]

Oh, you play faves? Better pull off the ol' nepotism charm I have on people.

[everblooms]

What's the point of being a favorite if you don't exploit it a little? Seems like a waste of an opportunity!

So I'll give you one of these. On the house. You like the yellow lily or the white zinnia?

[standingonmyneck]

You just go and say things the moment it comes up, do you?

Not that I can't complain about it.

So...Zinnias.

[everblooms]

Of course. I don't like asking 'what if' about anything.

[ A bold lie! ]

Zinnias, then. People used to exchange these with friends they haven't seen for a while, sort of like a welcome back gift. The white ones *also* mean purity, you know, like absolute goodness in the world. Be a great gift if you want to give it to something buuuuut... it kind of suits you, too.

[standingonmyneck]

[…]

Did you just psychoanalyze me with flowers?

[everblooms]

Must be a really good sales pitch if it's that deep in your brain!