Love of mine, someday you will die, but I'll be close behind

[feistytrader]

Please join us in the greenhouse should you feel able or need company. There will be food and comfort. None of us should be alone right now.

-Hanyuu, Jasper, and Silver

[That's the note that gets slid under everyone's doors after such a somber and saddening trial; it's not like it's going to be a big ordeal anymore given how few of them there are, but that doesn't mean that they should spend it alone.

The location of their setup is the greenhouse! ...The greenhouse has had a new addition; there is a massive blanket fort set up using an absurd amount of rope, blankets, and duct tape. The blankets span across three trees to make a considerable amount of space roughly shaped like a triangle for them to hang out under. Under the fort is a small pile of scissors taken from the sewing and art rooms. Next to them are a couple of flower crowns. They're relatively simple and don't involve many different flowers, but they're good examples of what the pile of scissors are there for.

There's also food, of course; a blanket is laid out on the floor with a large set of plates, a massive amount of eggs and rice, some of Elda's spicy fries, and... Sandwiches. Jasper's made everyone sandwiches, and the sandwiches are absolutely absurd in size due to how many cold cuts she's stacked into them. But don't worry! They aren't all meat. There's a lot of mustard, too. Luckily, they're still of a reasonably edible size.]

Comments

[matchbreaker]

[ It would.

She considers asking him about the eulogies but nah, she'll handle that. Instead she's going to - ninja behind him and reach around to fix his with her hand hands ]

[foundfate]

[He jumps a little when he sees her hands, because he hadn't been expecting that.]

Elda!

[He looks back at her with a scowl.]

[matchbreaker]

You're doing very poor work, Kimihiro!

[ Huff.

But fine, she'll pull her hands back, holding them up even ]

[foundfate]

Well it's not like I regularly make flower crowns!

[In fact he is shoving all of the flowers off of his lap now.]

[matchbreaker]

Nor I! But I, at least, am coordinated!

[ Huff. ]

Regardless, continue you work, I won't interfere more.

[ Just sit next to him and judge ]

[foundfate]

Nah, I think I'm all done with this.

[He's being a petulant child now.]

[matchbreaker]

No, you will finish that one for me, and I'll wear it.

[ Huff.

She's making her own now, despite already wearing a pink roses one ]

[foundfate]

I don't see the point, they're just going to wilt and die in a few days anyway.

[He hasn't started making the crown again yet, but he has picked up a flower and is looking at it.]

[matchbreaker]

Are you really asking that of a vampire? By my standards, most of the people here will "wilt in a few days," even if we do bring them back.

[ ... This might be too serious of thing to be about flower crowns, but it's been on her mind, a little, and she says it with good humor ]

[foundfate]

I know, the same is true by my standards too.

[He remembers why he is 117 now, yaaay]

It still doesn't answer my question.

1/2

[matchbreaker]

I'm still twice your age.

[matchbreaker]

Even if something's ephemeral, there's still value in it. I'm going to be amused by that flower crown you make tonight, and I'll remember it when I see you tomorrow. In turn, your hands will remember making it.

We're connected in that way.

[ Or at least, that's how she chooses to see it ]

But mostly, it'll be funny!

[foundfate]

That sounds really, really dumb and emotional.

[But it actually gets him to finally pick up the half-finished flower crown, so success?]

It's so stupid, how fragile everyone is. Even if humans can live 80 years or longer, death is always around the corner. You'd think we would be a little heartier or something.

[matchbreaker]

[ Elda shrugs. Her.... friend. Her friend died. ]

Not really, but then, what is? [ She hums, tying some flowers together ] Humans are the ones with the civilizations and the societies, somehow or another.

[foundfate]

Yeah, after thousands and thousands of generations.

[Or something like that, history is long ok.]

[matchbreaker]

Thousands?

[ Pfffthahaha ]

Not even! Do you know how much Japan changed in just the time I've been there?

[foundfate]

Well that's unfair to say, everywhere advanced really fast in the last couple centuries.

[matchbreaker]

Europe when I was young was unrecognizable to the days of my father.

[foundfate]

How old was your father anyway?

[matchbreaker]

[ When he died, of course. But- ]

He lived a good couple centuries, along with his brother.

[foundfate]

How far back is that? To Queen Elizabeth?

[Pretty much the only 'old' monarch Watanuki actually knows.]

[matchbreaker]

My Uncle lived in Urbino for some time when Federico da Montefeltro reigned, though he was born with my father in northern France. Our family attained our lesser nobility in my grandfather's day.... Truth told, I don't know the king in their youth.

[ . . . ]

Regardless, the point is that while it does irritate me, specially now, one fact becomes obvious: humans are the ones who drive society, and we vampires have ever followed. Neither can really be superior to the other, though.

[foundfate]

I think it might be nice, for vampires to help drive society. Like you said, neither is superior to the other, so helping each other out would be great.

[Oh look he's done with that flower crown. It looks like it could fall apart easily but he tried. And now he's putting it on Elda's head.]

[matchbreaker]

[ She... snorts at that. she snorts and then reaches a hand out to poke him in the cheek, digging her nail in ]

That would require those of us who are "immortal" to interact with "mere mortals," you know.

[ She grins ]

I suppose your romance can attest to that, though.

[foundfate]

First off, I'm still human, and still mortal. My 'time' is just stopped.

[Yeah, have fun with that one.]

Secondly, there's nothing wrong with immortals and mortals interacting.

[He's not gonna protest the romance bit though. He really does love Orihime, and would never argue about it or hide it.]