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[alpako]

Who: Saya alpako & Vietnam hoasen
When: ...Sometime!
Where: Flower Shop
What: Flowers and cosplay and customers, oh my.
Rating/Warning: None!

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[ Never one to turn down requests of other people, especially from a co-workers, Saya finds herself currently lost. The twists and turns of the unfamiliar streets lead her to even more unfamiliar places until she's no longer certain she has the right map anymore. But somehow she makes her way back to her starting position and somehow (with help) finds her way to the shop.

There are so many flowers outside Saya can't help but stop to stare. It's so beautiful, but surely they must be expensive. Shaking off the thought about keeping flowers in her room, she walks closer towards the entrance. ]

U-Um, excuse me...? I'm here for the cosplay cafe's order...

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[hoasen]

[Poor Saya, she sure was in for one hell of an adventure. Thankfully, the shop was still open as usual and it wasn't that busy. Not quite the season for sharing flowers.

Vietnam had already prepared the order, it was set aside as she was tending to the other stock. Some poor flowers had to be put aside because they were beginning to wilt, despite best efforts to keep them healthy. There were some which were salvageable, which she could either sell for a small price or give them away, but not something she can put in with the rest of the displays.

When Saya walks in, she looks over, eyes brightening in recognition.]

Saya! Hello, so your cosplay cafe was the one which made the order.

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[ Saya's face brightens when she sees who the shop owner is. Almost all of her nervousness fades away then. ]

Ah, Vietnam-san...! Yes! It's been a while. How have you been?

[ She steps further in, eyes widening at the flowers inside the shop, more numerous and colourful than the ones outside. ]

Uwa... These are all so pretty! Did you grow them all?

[hoasen]

[She's thankful that Saya recognises her too! After all, they've only met once, but she enjoyed Saya's company a lot.]

It has been. I've been better. Though much better off than the others in the last week, I assure you.

[Because of Shit. And she waves her hands.] Some yes, the others have to be ordered in to make up for the rest of the stock and the lack of space. It would be nice to have more space to grow things. Then I would be able to manage some of these, here.

[She wouldn't have to have so many dying plants, as they could just remain growing until someone wishes to buy them (or they die naturally). Not to mention she'd have a better spot to attempt to salvage Russia's sunflowers, which were in a sad pot by themselves.]

Now let me see, where is the order... [She starts going through the computers to find the order. It would've been easier with a book, but she can manage this now.]

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[ She listens, smiling, eyes wandering all over to the many flowers, expression dropping slightly at the sight of dying plants. What a pity, Saya thinks, walking towards the pots as Vietnam busies herself with finding the cafe's order, but the pot she stops in front of is a seemingly empty one, with broken seeds laid on top of the soil. Sunflower seeds--she'd seen them once, a long time ago, but not seeds broken to this extent.

Reaching out, she grazes the seed with her fingers and imagines the sunflower it could have become. She blinks once, about to pull back, and stops. ]

...Ah!

[ Right before her eyes, the seed is budding, growing, blooming, as if someone had pressed a fast forward button to it.

As she thought, it was really pretty. ]

[hoasen]

[Vietnam was browsing through the computer, completely unaware of what Saya was doing when she looked up to confirm with Saya the flowers that were ordered.

Until she saw the sunflowers blooming. Sunflowers whose seeds had very little chance of being fixed.]

Saya! Did you...?

[Rushing over next to her, she looks at the flowers, looking about as healthy as any other plant.]

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I-I'm sorry! [ Turning quickly, Saya bows deeply towards Vietnam. ] I wasn't thinking... Please let me pay for it!

[ She thinks it's the seeds themselves that are magical, and she might have just ruined the magic. ]

[hoasen]

Why would you need to pay for it?

[She's looking between the seeds and Saya.] Saya, did you just touch them, and that's it? Because they were crushed seeds, I was only hoping that weren't destroyed!

I think you fixed them!

[alpako]

...Eh?

[ Sorry, give her a second to actually take in Vietnam's words, because it's impossible... Right? ]

I-I just touched them...

[ Her Strain powers was barriers, wasn't it? ]

But I don't have any abilities like that.

[hoasen]

Only just touched them?

[It seems like Saya doesn't know if she did it or not. But flowers that were meant to be from dead seeds don't just grow from nowhere. There has to be something up.

Vietnam immediately grabs some wilting flowers, ones she was going to have to throw out soon, and puts them in front of Saya.]

Whatever you were thinking before, think about it again, and then just touch the flowers. Do not think if you had these skills or not, just...feel. [It's almost exactly the same as martial arts, seriously.]

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[ Saya blinks, looking to the wilting flowers now held in front of her. Vietnam says to think about what she was thinking before, but what was she thinking exactly? Flowers. Sunflowers, and how the broken seeds could have become sunflowers...

It'd be nice if these wilted flowers could bloom again.



And just like that, with a sudden light, the flowers perk up again, bright when their colours had been faded moments before. ]