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Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [09/25].

There was an exceptional amount of lobsters in the store that day. Shunsui had thought maybe Summer-chan had gone a little overboard with her ordering since it was her last week and all and she did seem a little preoccupied with the idea that he'd be incapable of doing them himself (conveneniently forgetting the fact that he had been doing orders for this store just fine back when she was still in grade school), but that seemed a bit of an odd thing to stock up on. So he checked, and, sure enough, no lobsters on the order at all, because it wasn't like it was a hot selling item for them even on a good week, and when one of the lobsters came up to the counter with a few bills in one claw and a pack of shrimp chips in the other, Shunsui realized that all these lobsters had come in as customers.

They didn't buy much, really, but they were mostly keeping out of everyone's way, so Shunsui didn't mind.

And, hey, at least they weren't crabs.

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Octavia almost tripped on a lobster on her way in. And she'd looked where she was going! She just hadn't thought to check floor-level for her fellow customers.

"Oh, what now?"

"It seems all the lobsters on the island have chosen today to do a grocery run," Shunsui noted from where he was lounging lazily against the front counter, his rumbling drawl stuck somewhere between bemused and confused. It had been rather fascinating, watching them scuttle around the store, but he pulled himself out of his crustacean-watching stupor to offer her a grin. "So I hope you haven't come in hoping for shrimp chips or escargot, because they seem determined to buy me entirely out of stock on those. Hello, Octavia-chan, my dear ♥, how are you ♥? What a wonderful way for my day to start getting better ♥!"

Edited 2019-09-25 15:24 (UTC)

Octavia stepped very carefully past the lobster as she made her way further into the store. "I'm just here for some beers," she said, predictably mild in her tone. "Shaking off the weekend."

You could tell it hadn't actually been very traumatic by how she was... mentioning it. Out loud.

And without any prompting!

"So ka?" asked Shunsui, with an intrigued tilt of his head and a faint smile to match. "What did you go and get yourself into that requires shaking, hmm ♥?"

Shunsui, for his part, had absolutely not noticed anything strange about the weekend at all, which was generally how he floated through most of these events. He had been achingly curious about how things might have turned out for the poor, love-lorn host of that party, though...

"It was just weird." Octavia knew that wasn't much of an answer, particularly here, but it was always the first go-to out of her mouth, regardless.

She shrugged. "I think I was trying to marry someone to murder them and take their money."

"And I daresay," said Shunsui, whose eyebrows may have lifted somewhat, "there are far more enjoyable ways to go about it you're marrying someone for their money ♥.

"Did you succeed?" he then asked, mostly out of curiosity for how Octavia-chan would answer, since he doubted it. He'd like to think that if someone was murdered, he'd know about it, although he'd admit he was absolutely terrible about paying attention to his real job.

"I think I would've lead with that, if I had," Octavia drawled, even though that was not at all certain.

Some of the hair on the side of her head had come lose from the braids, and she pushed it back behind her ear. And shook her head, with a quiet little sigh that sounded a little exasperated. At the island, probably. "No, we didn't get far enough with the marriage part of it. Seemed like I'd already done it someone else before, though."

"Well, I don't know," Shunsui drawled right back, "there's a lot to be said about a dramatic built toward a staggering climax ♥."

He should know, after all.

He was writer.

Sort of.

Which reminded him, he said he was going to try and get books for her, didn't he? He made a mental note to hopefully remember this time around.

"How lucky for that other person that you didn't get quite so far this time," he noted, "though I could think of far worse ways to go ♥."

"I'm pretty sure it was going to be poison." Whoever she'd been over the weekend had been a lot more hands-off than Octavia herself would've been. "That sounds bad enough for me."

Also, yes, she had too many opinions about death-related things.

"Ahhh, poison," said Shunsui, with a bit of a sigh. "So...not the worst, but hardly the best, either. You know, I did see you there, at that party. I'd apologize for not coming over to say hello, but it sounds as though that may have actually worked out to my benefit ♥."

Not that it would have worked, if he'd been poisoned, but getting a new gigai would be a terrible hassle...

"I think I saw you, too." The memories were really on the hazy side. "But I was busy doing... whatever it was I was doing."

Trying to break up a marriage that didn't even exist in the real world.

She pulled a slight face at... the whole thing, really. "I think I prefer talking to you as myself, anyway."

Shunsui had a soft laugh for that. "I think I prefer it, too ♥," he mused. "Though I don't think over the counter at my store is my preferred location for it..."

"Do you have another preference?"

You'd think the femme fatale might've rubbed off on her enough for that to come out sounding even a little less mild, but no.

"Well, I've only really got here and the park as examples so far," Shunsui pointed out, "so I'd be open to suggestions ♥. The park is lovely, though some where...quiet...intimate is always nice, don't you think ♥?"

"I guess." Hey, strictly speaking, the counter and the park were her only frames of reference, too, so: "Such as?"

"Hmmmm." Shunsui tilted his head, stroking his chin a little thoughtfully. "Well...the onsen is always lovely and relaxing, of course, but if you're more inclined toward something a little less...wet, I assure you, the door to my Bachelor Pad will always be open for a beautiful woman ♥. Nanao-chan doesn't mind; she's a very accommodating roommate ♥."

Well, yeah, Shunsui, because she was a plant...

A beat passed by as Octavia tried to decide which to ask about first.

Then she settled on: "The onsen?"

She actually thought she'd seen that on the map at some point, but that didn't mean she knew what it was.

"A hot spring," said Shunsui with an endlessly amused smile. "Very popular in my native Japan, although this one has the charmingly Western touch of requiring swimwear ♥."

Shunsui may have discovered, on more than one occasion, that they also tended to frown upon naps, as well.

"We should at least give it a try, Octavia-chan &hearts. It might not beat out the park, but I can guarantee, it's far more relaxing than the counter ♥."

Octavia nodded, apparently satisfied with that description. "That sounds nice."

Octavia Blake, queen of Never Relaxing Ever, saying okay to something that might help her wind down some? It was more likely than you thought!

"I work tomorrow, but I'm free afterwards?"

"Then I shall be there Friday ♥," Shunsui decided, "and if you happen to join me? All the better ♥ ♥ ♥."

And, little did he know, in that moment, just how grateful he would be to have all the relaxation he could get before the weekend really got into full swing ~~assuming I remember to submit it before tonight lol~~.

"Where do you work, Octavia-chan ♥?" he then asked. "I don't believe that's come up yet, or we've simply had much more interesting things to talk about than work ♥."

"Covent Garden, the flower store," Octavia replied. "It's not particularly interesting. Mostly it's just finding out that every month there's a big holiday --" None of which she really understood, despite how long she'd already worked at the store. "-- and people want flower arrangements for all of them."

"Well," said Shunsui, "flowers do make for a lovely gift for any occasion, but I can't imagine the sales are very good on the days you're working, Octavia-chan. Why, even the most splendid rose to ever bloom would surely pale in comparison to the beauty of the person selling them ♥. Or perhaps it's just the other way around, where admirers come in in droves to purchase blossoms that they then turn right back over to you in a hopeful desire to win your heart ♥."

Octavia snorted. But at least that meant she was outwardly amused, for once.

"Mostly they seem to yell at me over the phone about orders they've sent in incorretly themselves."

"That doesn't sound nearly as pleasant," Shunsui observed with a chuckle, his smile gaining a little more warmth at her amusement. "Should I send in an order and then call to sing its praises, so you can have a nice change of pace ♥?"

"It couldn't hurt," Octavia said, as lightly as she ever said anything. "At the very least, it could block an angry stranger from getting their call through."

"So," Shunsui said with a laugh, "the more verbose the praise, the better ♥! I think I can manage that ♥."

There was another huff of a sound that wasn't quite a laugh, but also wasn't quite not one, either.

"Oh, I bet, Shunsui."

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