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[godlyreigns]

I - [phone]

[She thought it was about time she made her presence known.]

It seems I'm still a florist, despite being in a different house...I really should learn more about flowers. I know almost nothing. If anyone happens to consider themselves an expert, I'd appreciate a few lessons, per se.

And Carrie...if you can hear this, please give me a call back.

II - [florist's, all day]

[Rider is bored. But that's an understatement. Because throughout her day, she keeps finding increasingly bizarre ways to pass the time. First it's just reading. Then she tries to arrange a bouquet of flowers into different patterns...including an odd-looking snake. At one point she's slumped over the counter, (seemingly) asleep. She can be "bumped into" at any of these times.]

Comments

[godlyreigns]

[She doesn't bother lifting her head up, so her words come out muffled.]

I am fine.

[After a few seconds, though, she raises herself up onto her elbows.] My apologies if I worried you. I don't have much to do while on duty here.

[returntospring]

It's alright, Rider. [She smiles, leaning against the counter - on the other side, of course - next to the Servant.] Can't you find another job, if this one is so dull?

[godlyreigns]

If I could, I very much would. But once you are assigned a "job", you are stuck with it until the town decides otherwise.

[returntospring]

I see... I guess it's nice that they give you a job, but it's a little unfair that you can't change it.

[godlyreigns]

Such is the nature of this town. [She gives a little shrug.

And she takes a small lily from a bouquet beside her, clips the long part of the stem off, and gently arranges it in Sakura's hair, in the spot where her ribbon usually is.]

[returntospring]

[It's just a little thing, but the gesture makes Sakura smile brightly. And... it still amazes her a little, that such a fierce, terrifyingly powerful mythological figure such as Rider can be so gentle.]

This town just gets stranger and stranger the more I hear about it.