Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [02/17].

[sake_shinigami]

Since the store seemed to be relatively quiet (although still very noticably pink, with all the extra Valentine's Day merchandice sitting front and center and drastically discounted in an effort to get rid of it sooner rather than later) and he was still feeling rather inspired from the past weekend, Shunsui spent his time between naps and customers attempting to compose a few new poems for the turtle and the canary.

"You are hard outside," he tried thoughtfully,
but soft and tender within
Like a coconut."

Yeah, didn't quite have the same finesse to it, did it? Shunsui just hoped that Jaye-chan would be delighted if she were to know how much more effective she was as a muse than the store pets.

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[superjoanjett]

She didn't say anything when she entered the store. She went to the liquor aisle, avoiding the cheese panda before heading towards the register.

Placing the three cheap bottles on the register she just stood there looking at Shunsui.

"Flowers? Real-ly?" she asked sarcastically.

[sake_shinigami]

And Shunsui passed a very knowing smirk over to the poor, uninspiring turtle as soon as Jessica disappeared into the aisles, because now he got to just sort of savor the time between that moment and the inevitable one when she came up to the register with her bottles (his estimate for how many was a little off) and actually say something.

(His estimate for that was much closer).

"Figured it out, did you, Miss Jones-chan ♥?" He met that look with a shameless crooked grin. "You're well suited to your profession ♥. I was going to subtlety this year ♥."

To be fair, that was pretty subtle for Shunsui.

[superjoanjett]

"Yeah. Real subtle," she deadpanned.

She grabbed one of the postcard packs that Astrid had put together and tossed them in along with the bottles. And started digging through her coat pockets for her money. She did her best not to make eye contact with the man behind the counter. She looked and started to feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Black ones were nice," she said awkwardly, counting out the bills for everything.

[sake_shinigami]

It probably didn't help much that Shunsui was watching with his soft, lopsided smile as she started fishing around for the payment, though there was at least some relief, as he started to put his attention into finding a jug and a couple of cups once that discomfort seemed to reach its zenith.

And timed so that when he responded, he was holding out the two cups in his hand, carefully balanced, one with slightly more sake than the other. "I could think of no other color more fitting," he said. "Karasu no hane no yō ni..."

A brief pause, before he added, "Sake, Miss Jones-chan ♥?"

[superjoanjett]

Jessica eyed the sake cup with a bit of apprehension. "Sure," she said reluctantly taking the offered cup. "I don't speak Japanese. What did you just say?"

[sake_shinigami]

"Like the wings of a crow," Shunsui translated easily, as his hand shifted its grip on the other cup once it was relieved of the one Jessica took. "The weekend's left me in a bit of a poetic, inspired mood ♥. I'm thinking of picking up my writing again."

Thinking of being the operative words there. There was a big leap between thinking of doing something and actually doing it.

[superjoanjett]

"Well I was pretty sure you were insulting me," Jessica joked, still feeling uncomfortable. "Didn't know you were a poet."

The transaction was done but Jessica wasn't in a rush to leave. "What inspired you this weekend?"

[sake_shinigami]

Technically speaking, Shunsui could have been lying about the translation and some people might take offense to being compared to a crow, but if Jessica wasn't going to mention any of that, Shunsui certainly wouldn't.

"Hard not to feel inspired," he shrugged a shoulder lightly, had a sip from his own cup, "when one has the chance to send beautiful things to beautiful women ♥. But...more specifically, one of matches for the speed dating event this last weekend served as a wonderfully potent wellspring of creativity ♥. You were there, too, weren't you, Miss Jones-chan ♥? Shame we weren't paired, but perhaps it's for the best. A mere three minutes would be abysmally brief ♥."

[superjoanjett]

There was the briefest squint of the eyes at Shunsui's response. "That depends on how you spend those three minutes," She said trying to sound casual. "And who was this inspiration of yours?"

[sake_shinigami]

"I can assure you, Miss Jones-chan," Shunsui's grin broadened, "no matter how those three minutes are spent, I'd only imagine it leading to me wanting more, but you're more than welcome to try and prove me wrong. I do like to take my time with most things, though ♥. As my muse discovered this weekend; the lovely and patient Jaye-chan has been waiting on a poem from me since the last time one of these little events occured ♥."