fandomtownies | Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [01/26].

Apu was apparently really stepping up his game for National Green Juice Day, because when Shunsui eventually fluttered his way in for the purposes of performative employment, he'd had a whole station set up, featuring plenty of the fresh produce on hand, as well as a good opportunity to show off various different juicers they had for sale that maybe might convince someone to pick them up for themselves. In a way, Shunsui was sort of impressed, even if the whole enterprise sounded exhausting and he was glad Apu had it handled with absolutely no intention of involving him at all.

"I feel...slightly more confident in this than those potions from the other week ♥," he noted, but you can bet he was definitely trying to sneak a few splashes from his sake jug into the blenders when Apu wasn't looking. Just to make things a bit more interesting.

And he was far sneakier than people usually gave him credit for.

Today's Squishy Flavors
Kale
Peanut Brittle
Red

Turtle & Canary is open!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

When Octavia made it in today, she was not immediately drawn towards the counter for a change.

Because, sorry, she really liked fresh produce (for what may have been obvious reasons). And that made the green juice station worth inspecting, immediately.

And after all this time, too! Upstaged by a bunch of vegetables!

Shunsui's poor heart might be terribly broken if he wasn't just slightly more intrigued to see exactly how well Apu's sales pitch would go over with Octavia, as the man was incredibly eager to get launching into the benefits of a nice, healthy green juice, blended up by none other than one of the very fine juicing products available at an exceptional price in this very store! In fact, Shunsui was just going to go ahead and pour himself a small bit of sake as he got comfortable leaning into his vantage spot at the counter to find out.

Edited 2022-01-26 14:31 (UTC)

It was hard to sell Octavia things.

... In that once she knew what a thing was and whether she had use for it, she made her decision based on that. Which meant there was rather an abrupt end to Apu's spiel - and then Octavia lugging one of the juicers up to the counter.

"Hey."

Abrupt end or not, Apu would definitely be gloating about that for the rest of the day now.

Shunsui ducked his head, tilting his hat, in response to the greeting before asking, "Here to celebrate National Green Juice Day with us here at Turtle & Canary, then, Octavia-chan ♥? If I'd have known you were a fan, I would have celebrated it sooner ♥."

Because that was how these made-up holidays worked anyway, wasn't it?

"Don't those usually have a set date?"

Sorry, Shunsui, you were talking to one of your most literal customers.

(Even if she was wondering - as she did most times, honestly - whether this Day wasn't another made-up one.)

Oh, Shunsui was wholly convinced that these sorts of things were entirely at the whim of the only man on the entire island who seemed to even care more often than not, and that was generally the response he'd been expecting out of her, anyway. Which is why he certainly had no trouble giving his shoulder a faint shrug and mildly asking, "Would you have known the difference either way ♥?"

"No," Octavia replied, mirroring a faint shrug back at him as she set the juicer down, "I'm just saying."

"Well," Shunsui's smile was somewhat indulgant, "I suppose someone should be asking the important questions, after all ♥. Now, tell me this, Octavia-chan..."

He tilted back what remained in his cup from a moment ago and set it on the counter, then followed it with another new cup, and then reached under the counter for a particular jug.

"As much as I would never want to be the one to delay any sort of celebration, you're not in so much a rush to get started on your new juicing adventure that you can't spare a few moments for a drink," which he was, unsurprisingly, already pouring, "are you ♥?"

"I'm not," Octavia said, with a faintly wry look at the juicer. "I assume when I get home, someone's going to tell me I picked the wrong kind, or not one that was expensive enough, or something."

No, they were actually just going to marvel at her buying something she didn't absolutely need, probably.

"I'm not in a hurry."

"That's when you simply start using it," Shunsui suggested with a chuckle, "and point out that you simply can't hear them, if anything, you clearly should have just gotten a quieter one, but it's too late now ♥."

And by then, of course, the two little cups of water were poured, but since he'd been using his own for sake, he only plucked up the new one, shifted his hand so that it was cradled in his fingers, and offered it out to her.

"'Not in a hurry'," he added, "is exactly what I like to hear ♥."

Octavia reached out and plucked the cup off his hand, in her usual, careful, slow manner.

She snorted softly. "Glad to not disappoint," she said. Pretty lightly, by her standards. "But I don't tend to rush out of here when I manage to drop by, do I?"

"No ♥," Shunsui chuckled a little, as he did what he could to infuse one short, simple syllable with as much adoration and appreciation as it would allow, with a lift of his cup as an added toast of gratitude to this fact, "but...you don't tend to come in with almost an instant spark of interest in a such an exciting new hobby right away, either ♥."

There was another snort. Soft and quiet. "I don't think juice counts as a hobby, Shunsui," Octavia said, before bringing the cup up to her lips.

"I'm afraid our dear Apu-san may have missed that particular memo, Octavia-chan ♥," Shunsui noted, with a tilt of a grin almost as substantial as the tilt of his cup as he drank its meager contents down and set it back on the counter to already go in for a refill.

"Have you any new and exciting hobbies to tell me about, though ♥?" he asked, conversationally, as he filled his cup again. "What have you been up to these days, my dear ♥?"

"I don't have hobbies."

That hadn't really been the question, no. And it seemed like mostly an automatic thing to say, because Octavia's lips were tugging further into a smile.

"We were in Norway for... I don't know, most of last month? And I haven't been doing much since we got back. Just... most of my usual things."

She'd just been happier, doing them, than she had for most of the past year and change. And it kind of showed.

"Which are not," Shunsui confirmed, as if for some kind of record, finishing his pour and tilting the jug questioningly toward Octavia, even if she had only had just a sip of hers so far, "to be confused with hobbies, of course ♥.

"And Norway, mmm ♥? How was that? Besides cold, I assume...♥."

"Cold." Well, it needed to be said, even though he already had. Also, Octavia was holding her cup out for the refill. "Snowy. But... I like that. And Lucifer has a castle."

Which had actually taken her a little bit of getting used to. She was a boat person now, through and through.

(Also castles could kind of remind her of the tower in Polis.)

"It was really nice."

Shunsui's grin seemed to even out a bit, softening, as he tipped a little more water into her cup and then set the jug down within easy reach to return to taking a small sip from his own cup.

"Cold and snow isn't so bad at all," he mused, "when in the company of other warm...personalities ♥.

"I'm glad you had a good time, Octavia-chan."

There was that smile again. "I am, too."

And she looked it. There was a softness about her that wasn't always there, hadn't been there a lot since she'd returned older and more jaded from her world.

"Anyway," she continued, with a wry little shake of her head, as if she felt like she'd been caught being ridiculous, "how have you been?"

Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [01/26].

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject