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Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [02/05].

Apu had been complaining about the Squishy machine not working properly, but Shunsui honestly couldn't see what the problem was.

"Those seem like perfectly normal Squshy flavors to me, Apu-san..."

Apparently, that was the point, and he went on to explain that they shouldn't be, because of something to do with shadows? And the whole thing made absolutely no sense, and Shunsui was starting to wonder if maybe Apu was finally beginning to crack.

"Well," he proposed, trying to sound judicious about the whole thing, "how about, if the..err...problem persists through tomorrow, then I will go ahead and call Movie Class-chan to come have a look at it, neh? You know I am always delighted to have her company, but I can assure you, and I know you'll agree, if we drag her out here to look at the machine and there's actually nothing wrong with it, then we'll have problems far greater than a faulty Squishy machine on our hands ♥."

Which just meant that Apu was tempted to just call Amaya himself, because there was something clearly wrong with it, how could Shunsui not see it???

Today's Squishy Flavors
Grape
Blue Raspberry
Red

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Octavia actually looked awake and alert, walking into the store this week. Amazing what not spending the night worrying over someone else's nervous breakdown could do to a person's ability to sleep!

(She was still having nightmares of her own, of course. But those were getting less dramatic and therefore easier to ignore once morning came.)

She also took all of one glance at Apu before asking, "What's the matter with him?"

[ooc: SP reigns once more, because life insists on happening on Wednesdays lately. GDI.]

A faint grunt escaped Shunsui as he followed Octavia's glance witheringly for a moment. "How much time do you have, Octavia-chan?" he asked as his eyes drifted back toward something far more pleasant to look at. "Because the answer to that question could very well take the better part of a whole day, or quite possible a week, to explore in its entirety..."

But with his attention now on something far more pleasant, his mood lifted to suit, and he smiled. "Some nonsense with the Squishy machine, this time around, despite it functioning completely normally and arguably better than usual."

He waved his hand dismissively, as if brushing it away as a topic when there were more enticing things they could be discussing instead, his grin broadening as he added, "You're looking stunning today, Octavia-chan ♥." Which was to say not like a sleep-deprived walking corpse. "Good morning ♥?" Which was to say a...decent night. All wrapped neatly in his usual conversational cheerfulness, while already pouring out a cup of sake.

[[ what a jerk <3 ]]

Octavia made her way up to the counted while he spoke. "An okay one," she said, once she'd made it there. "I'd ask how yours was, but I think we already covered what probably counts as your morning."

She figured he didn't tend to see many actual mornings, and today was probably no different.

Not in the direction that most people saw them, anyway, if he did so happen to catch one on accident.

"And what counts as my morning," he said, smiling fondly, "has just gotten significantly better ♥. Who needs a sunrise when they have you, Octavia-chan~ ♥?"

The grin took a shamelessly unapologetic tilt as he offered out the cup. "Your sake, hato ♥?"

"Thank you," Octavia said, reaching for the cup.

Carefully, as usual.

"And I'm nothing like a sunrise, Shunsui," she added while her fingertips grazed his palm. Possibly baiting him on purpose, for once. There was a vague hint of something amused to her tone, anyway.

"Ohhh," said Shunsui, who barely needed any bait to be drawn in on a hook as it was, appreciating the care Octavia took with jill is sake cups with a little trailing of his own fingers as well, "I beg to differ, Octavia-chan, and the similarities go far beyond the obvious appeal to beauty ♥. You never know quite what you'll get with a sunrise. Will it be temperate and mild? Stormy and brooding? One cannot be entirely sure, but one is eager to find out ♥. And let us not forget this important detail: you both get the day started much too early ♥."

"So I'm unpredictable and get up too early?"

Some of the way she seemed amused by that was due to an entirely different conversation about the sun and predictability she'd had recently.

But not nearly all of it.

"Your moods are unpredictable," Shunsui clarified, feeling that the distinction was important. "Your temperament. One can usually depend on a sunrise being there, but they do not know exactly how it will look."

He grinned faintly as he paused, as if he needed to concentrate on pouring his own sake before adding, "But one does look forward to finding out ♥."

Octavia huffed a faint snort, and took a sip from her cup instead of saying anything to that immediately.

In fact, there was a longer pause, and then she finally said, "Sorry about last week." Her tone was wry, but only barely. She knew she hadn't exactly done anything wrong or been particularly difficult (not by her own standards, anyway) - but she also knew she'd made him try a fair bit.

"I can't imagine what you could possibly have to apologize for, Octavia-chan ♥," Shunsui replied, easily, lifting his cup a moment before taking a sip. It was true, after all. Even the moments when he might have had to try a little harder were hardly all that taxing; she had been much too tired to demand too much work.

Octavia shrugged one shoulder, as if to say 'fair point'.

"Being tired, I guess."

"Well," Shunsui drawled lightly, "suppose we just not let it become a habit, and we'll be even, Octavia-chan ♥. I'm glad you're feeling better now ♥."

"Thanks," Octavia said, even though it was probably about as silly as apologizing for being tired had been. But for whatever reason, she couldn't help it.

She let her gaze slide down to the cup in her hand. "Last week was rough," she said, managing to sound both mild and light at the same time. "For a few reasons. This one's going much better."

Shunsui certainly wouldn't want to imagine it being much worse.

"Anything in particular you're looking forward to for this much better week, then, Octavia-chan ♥?" he asked with a faint, warm smile.

Octavia shrugged as she looked up again. "Well, beyond this, and probably having lunch tomorrow with... ai snogon --" It felt weird to say that, but good, too. (Though it was probably purely weird from the outside, and for that she was vaguely sorry.) "-- that's pretty much all my plans for the week. So I guess nothing much in particular, no."

As of yet, anyway.

"I think that sounds like an excellent start," Shunsui offered, tilting his grin just that slight bit more when Octavia looked up, "and already a vast improvement on last week ♥."

He could only assume, since he didn't exactly have the specifics, but he was pretty confident that they weren't quite necessary to comfortalby reach that conclusion.

"And who is Ai Snogon?" he asked, conversationally, around his next sip of sake. "A friend, I assume ♥?"

Anything that made Octavia display just how exhausted she was that openly could safely be assumed to be very bad, yes. So he wasn't wrong at all.

"It's not a name," she said, with a stray bit of something softer entering her tone, just briefly. "Or I guess it is, if you think all the words you call a person by qualify as names."

"A nickname," Shunsui suggested, his head tilting a bit thoughtfully "at the very least. What does it mean, then, if it's not a name?"

"It doesn't really have an... exact translation," Octavia replied, with some hesitation that came mostly from just thinking it over. "I don't think so, anyway." So much of her knowledge of the nuances of Trigedasleng were just guesses. There was only so much you could pick up in a year when you had no resources to fall back on, later. "But it means someone you're really close to."

And, look! Here was another bout of hesitation, this one brought on by a subtle but also sudden moment of feeling a little self-conscious.

Octavia took a sip from her cup before continuing. "And I don't really like words like 'boyfriend'. They're just -- not for me. So... snogon."

"Ah ♥," said Shunsui, finding it absolutely impossible to keep his smile down to anything smaller than a beam, he'd thought perhaps it might have been a bit of that sort of softness back there, and couldn't help feeilng at least a little validated in his feeling like he'd been getting better at his Octavia-reading, "that kind of close to ♥. And now I feel we've completely undersold just how much better this week will be ♥."

That, in fact, called for Shunsui lifting his sake cup in a toast with a wink before drinking what remained in his cup down.

"And I think that," he said, starting to pour his next round, "deserves more sake ♥."

"You think everything deserves more sake," Octavia replied, but finished what little was left in her cup so that she could hold it out for a refill. "I don't know if I said anything particularly special just now."

Special to herself, sure, but...

"Mmmmm ♥," Shunsui hummed thoughtfully as he leaned forward to pour a little more sake into Octavia's cup, his grin still far too pleased, "I wonder...are sunrises also contradictory, Octavia-chan? Are you telling me now that this person isn't anything particularly special?"

"He's special."

There was absolutely no denying that. And even if she'd tried to, the softening of her tone - again - would probably have betrayed her actual feelings.

"It's just...not news."

"Something doesn't have to be news to be special, Octavia-chan," Shunsui told her softly. "Or to be celebrated. Especially when it comes to people we care about ♥.

"Besides," he added, with a brightening of his voice as he took up his cup again, with the air of someone who'd just moved a pawn into an unexpected checkmate on the board, "this is the first you've mentioned this ai snogon in one of our conversations, which makes it news to me ♥."

And therefor? That sake was more than justified.

Octavia couldn't quite help something wryly amused mixing into her expression. Especially because it kept her faint, thoroughly odd sense of relief from showing through.

"True, I guess," she relented. "And, calling him that is pretty new. Even if the rest isn't. "

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