Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [10/23].

[sake_shinigami]

Strange and disturbing things were indeed happening all over the island this week: Shunsui Kyōraku had actually gone to work two days in a row.

Not that he planned on actually doing much work, mind you, except perhaps talking to customers, which he felt didn't really count as work, since it was something he mostly enjoyed, and he'd even gotten most of his ordering done yesterday, besides. He had some workplace napping to catch up on, since it hadn't really gone very well for him the day before, and, well, he knew certain people tended to do their grocery shopping on Wednesdays, and he'd hate for them to be terribly disappointed by his absence if they'd come in today and he wasn't there...

There was, of course, the matter of the gourds and the little old lady who came in and always spent about half an hour going through all the milks in the cooler in hopes to find the one jug with an expiration date far, far, far into the future, who usually paid with all coins, and now only seemed to have a pocketfull of tiny gourds. Shunsui was more than happy to accept gourds as payments, especially from such a lovely young woman such as this little old lady, but he was a bit at a loss on how exactly to do the conversion rate.

Today's Squishy Flavors
Boston Cream Pie
Canned Peas
Red

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[okteiviakom]

Certain people were forming certain shopping habits, this was true. This morning hadn't been an early one, though, because of how exhausting yesterday had been, and so Octavia showed up later in the afternoon. (And still feeling pretty tired, yeah.)

"What's Boston Cream Pie?"

She didn't necessarily expect Shunsui to know. Sometimes she just liked to read the Squishy flavors, coming in.

[sake_shinigami]

"It's....some sort of cream pie," Shunsui offered, after a moment of looking thoughtfully at the Squishy machine, "...from Boston ♥."

Yes, thank you, very helpful, Shunsui.

"It's a sweet flavor," he added, which might have helped a bit more, until that lazy, unscrupulous smile spread across his face as he turned his attention toward something far more interesting and beautiful, "but not as sweet as you, of course, Octavia-chan ♥. How are you, my little sorrow dove ♥? Would you like to try a bit of the Squishy in question, or shall we stick with the customary sake ♥?"

Or both!

You know he absolutely tried mixing the two at some point that day.

[okteiviakom]

Speaking of doves, there was what may have been a familiar delicate chain just barely visible around Octavia's neck. The pendant itself was tucked under her shirt and thus hidden from view, but, well...

Wasn't as if she'd been wearing any necklaces before last week.

Octavia shrugged. "I haven't tried any of the Squishies before." Possibly because they had not yet been shoved at her by Magnus. "Today might as well be that day."

[sake_shinigami]

"Might as well ♥," Shunsui agreed with a gentle smile. He took a moment of silence for the incredibly comfortable position at the counter that he was about to sacrifice before pushing himself up and fluttering over to the machine so he could pour Octavia-chan a cup of the stuff like the gentleman than Nina-chan had so stunningly decreed him on her broadcast.

"I keep hoping they'll do a sake flavor," Shunsui groused, with an oh-so-tragic drawl, despite the grin that remained on his face, "but so such luck yet."

So enjoy this nice cup of slushed ice that tasted like cream pie, Octavia!

"Maybe they're waiting for my birthday ♥."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia accepted the cup, with some mild curiosity in the way she eyed it. "When's that?" she asked, before taking a sip.

... It tasted sweet. And like some kind of cake.

She wasn't sure what she'd expected.

[sake_shinigami]

"July ♥," said Shunsui, with a chuckle that made it clear that he either didn't mind that it would obviously be a pretty long wait or just didn't put it together that it woud.

"So what do you think ♥?" he asked.

[okteiviakom]

"I don't know if a drink should taste like this," Octavia replied after another thoughtful sip. Because of course she was way too serious about this. "If this even qualifies as a drink."

It was the ice.

[sake_shinigami]

"I think it's in how it's consumed that makes the difference there ♥," mused Shunsui, never one to pass up a conversation that went absolutely no where. "If you were to start eating it with a spoon, that would change everything..."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia snorted, quietly. "So what would it be then?" she wondered. "Dessert?"

Which, by the way, was a concept she hadn't been all too familiar with before she'd hit the island.

[sake_shinigami]

"A very disappointing one, but I suppose it would be ♥," Shunsui chuckled. "And, once again, we find ourselves considering perspective, Octavia-chan ♥"

[okteiviakom]

"Because everything's a matter of perspective, right?" Octavia drawled, though it wasn't quite as dry as it could've been.

She was also still sipping the damn Squishy.