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Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [11/30].

The Squishy machine had not been working when Shunsui came in that ~~morning~~ afternoon probably, and after a great deal of effort, he was finally able to get the repairwoman in to have a look at it.

But he was feeling generous today, and only teased her a little bit about the recent lack of maintenance check-ups on the poor thing and how it was only when he got Summer-chan involved to text her about it that she finally responded in any capacity.

"Well, how was I supposed to know it was actually broken this time?" Amaya groused back, before taking one look at the machine and knowing exactly what the problem was.

"Who decided to wrap the whole thing in gift wrap?" she wondered. "Including the air vents! You can't cover the vents, they have to be able to vent!" She took a moment to massage the migraine already building up between her eyes before turning her attention to Apu. "This your handiwork?"

Apu, of course, denied it, shrugging and saying it must have been the new guy. Amaya looked back to Shunsui as if to confirm, but Shunsui just shrugged, because he hadn't actually even been aware that there was a new guy. Well, maybe Summer-chan had mentioned it, but he clearly hadn't retained that information.

Well, whoever was to blame, Amaya could only do so much with some of the insides fried from being overheated due to poor ventilation, so she sorted out what parts needed to be ordered and replaced, slapped down a bill for services rendered, and tried to get out of there before Shunsui could start pulling out those sake cups.

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And here was someone who was both cool with the sake cups and didn't care at all about the Squishy machine most weeks.

Also neither of those things were Octavia's priority today. "Ha yun, Shunsui."

Nobody actually cared about the Squishy machine.

"Konnichiwa, Octavia-chan~ ♥," Shunsui sang out with a pleased smile to see her. "Dou yo, hmmm ♥?"

"Ai's ku," Octavia replied as she was making her way to the counter. (Yes, it sort of sounded like she was saying 'ice cool'. Language!) "You?"

"Ahhh, genki, genki ♥!" The casual wave of his hand, as if brushing off the answer with a certain dismissal, contrasted with the amused chuckle and the grin to match. "It seems to be a fortuitous day for me, Octavia-chan! Not one, but two visits from some of my favorite lovely ladies ♥. And it's still so early ♥! Who knows what more the day may have in store, neh ♥?"

Well, there was at least one thing he knew awaited them in the very near future, because he had set out his cups on the counter and began to pour.

Octavia made no moves to stop him, either. "It's not that early," she said, but with a very faint wryness that said she knew he lived on a wholly different schedule.

"Ahhh," it was lightly agreeing sounds that escaped Shunsui just then, "but it's certainly not that late, either, Octavia-chan ♥."

And, with that, he set the jug aside and scooped up the cups from the counter into his hand, to offer them out, one slightly more filled than the other.

"Either way you look at it, though," he added with a wink, "it is the perfect time for sake ♥."

"You always think that."

Said the woman reaching out to carefully pick up (the less full) one of the cups. As she always did.

(Almost always, anyway.)

"And it's always true ♥."

(Almost always, anyway.)

And with one cup chosen, Shunsui shifted his hand to better hold the one that remained, and held up a little between them with a nod

"To what do we toast today, Octavia-chan?"

"I don't know," Octavia said. There was soemthing on her mind, something that had sort of brought her here, but it didn't feel like toast material. So: "To Wednesdays?"

"Wednesdays," Shunsui decided, with a reverent duck of his head, "are an excellent thing to toast to &hearts:."

So he lifted his cup a little more as he lifted his chin and pronounced, "To Wednesdays~ ♥. This Wednesday, and previous Wednesdays, and most of all, all the Wednesdays still to come ♥!"

That covered all the bases nicely, didn't it? One more duck of his head, and he brought the cup to his lips to drink.

"Thorough," Octavia deadpanned, before following his lead and bringing her own cup up.

It was fond, really.

"I do try ♥."

Just, you know, so long as it didn't require...too much effort.

One more sip, and regarded Octavia with a little more sincere curiosity beyond the theatrics of those initial beats.

"How have you been, though? Any new exploits with your charming paramores? Or progress on that sewing project of yours? You know, I don't think I ever heard the conclusion of everything with that bracelet, either, Octavia-chan..."

"Not much of a conclusion with the bracelet," Octavia admitted, lifting one shoulder just a little bit in a half-hearted shrug. "Duke's wearing it, but the other capsule's still empty ~~I assume~~."

The shoulder fell again.

"Sewings's still going on, but I'm out of practice, so it's... It's going."

"No doubt," Shunsui presumed, "waiting for just the right thing with which to fill ♥. And I suppose going is still better than....not going."

"I guess," Octavia said, with less of a physical shrug, this time. She wondered, for a second, whether to mention something, but then --

"Anyway, I had a question."

"Hopefully," said Shunsui, setting down his cup, not because it was empty, but just because this felt like a moment to refill it, "I'll have an answer ♥."

Cup back to nearly brimming, he tilted the jug back up and then toward her in a silent question of his own with regards to her own.

"What's on your mind, Octavia-chan?"

Octavia shook her head a little at the offer. Like she was zeroing in fully on the topic at hand, instead. "The paintings that were here, the other week," she said. "Where did they come from?"

Guess she could or should have asked Apu, but...

Shunsui's head tilted a little, and, after setting down the jug but before picking up his cup again, he rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"For the Art Museum day, neh?" he asked. "I'm not entirely sure, to be honest. I just assumed Apu-san had dragged them out of storage in the back room. The amount of things back there is staggering, really....

"Why?" he then asked, picking up his cup. "Were you interested in taking one home after all?"

Octavia shook her head again, but there was something a little hesitant, a little uncertain about it.

"I didn't see the one I'm looking for," she said. "Actually took me like a week afterwards to find a picture of it at all."

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Octavia could not have explain where the sudden urge to say no came from.

She nodded anyway, all too sincere.

Shunsui gave a soft smile at that nod, thinking it was a good thing he paid attention, perhaps he'd have entirely missed it.

"We'll be right on it, Octavia-chan ♥," he told her, then chuckled, faintly. "Well, Summer-chan will be, that's a bit more her wheelhouse than mine, but, I assure you, she is very good at what she does ♥. I don't suppose you have a title or artist for us? A description so we know what to look for?"

"I think it said that where I found it," Octavia replied, already digging out her phone. She poked around on it for a moment, eventually pulling up a page with a picture of the painting in question. "here it is," she said, scrolling to find the actual information. "It's called 'The Lovers' Whirlwind', and it's by William..."

Oh.

"Blake."

Somehow she'd missed that part, before. And didn't really know how to feel about it.

That...pause caused a subtle, curious quirk to Shunsui's head, to his brow, taking a moment to consider Octavia's expression there before noting, "I do rather enjoy a title like that ♥. I'll be sure to pass that along, Octavia-chan."

Octavia just had complicated feelings about the last name she'd stopped using, that was all. (And what didn't she have complicated feelings about?)

"Okay," she said, with another tiny nod, trying to mentally shake off her faint surprise. "Thanks. Though I don't -- I think the title makes you think of something nicer than it actually is."

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