Opening up the flower shop~

[greenmagick]

Where: Aqures Ixen: Terra’s new flower shop (Also a rescue center for animals and pets) located at the border between the 14th and 09th District of Aqures Ixen.
When: 9th through the month of May~ and June!
Summary: Terra has just opened her shop, Jardin Verdoyant, after spending some time and money getting it ready. Bartz had helped her where he could. Now it is open and ready for business. In June Terra can be found at the flower shop or her home. The memories left her feeling a little uncomfortable about people.
Warning: None.


Terra had made sure the shop was perfect before sending out Tempest with the flyers. There were rows of plants cut from the stem and rearranged in lovely patterns as well as rows of bright seasonal flowers that were still rooted to a clump of soft dirt. She wanted people to be able to plant flowers as well as have them to be placed in a vase or given as gifts. She had collected seeds as well, which sat in small baskets on the front counter, each with the flowers names written out on small pieces of parchment. The whole store front burst with colors drawing in those who walked by.

The back of the store was simple, Terra was in the process of outfitting it as a greenhouse of sorts and she hoped to have it set up so she could grow spring and summer flowers throughout the winter. On the far side of that wall there were pens and a dozen or so kittens were playing with small toys that Terra had made a few days before. Two of the kittens, whom Terra has trained, were wandering around the store front pulling in customers with soft meows. One was black with startling blue green eyes while the other was an orange tabby cat who’s eyes shined gold in the light of the sun.

Terra was excited and it showed in a happy smile as she lightly misted water over a collection of carnations.

She had her long green hair pulled back into a ponytail with loose strains falling to frame her delicate features. For once Terra wasn't wearing a dress deciding to wear a purple tank top and a pair of worn shorts. She wore brown boots that ended at her calf which were slightly covered in dirt and scuffed from work.

Comments

[greenmagick]

"My world... doesn't have anything like that." Or if it did Terra was sure that the Empire would have killed them as well. There were monsters in her world but little else besides the human's who made the world their home.

Her eyes glanced down at the hat and she continued her work. "I'm not familiar with have guilds either." All Terra really knew of was war. So everything else usually left the young girl confused.

[unyieldingspirit]

K'pandolu glanced down at her hands for a moment, fingers curling. "Perhaps that's for the best," she murmured. The slyphs were friendly enough- or the slyphs of Little Solace were, at least- but with the history between the other beast tribes and the city-states being so bloody, she couldn't wish it on anyone else.

"No?" She leaned forward again, ears twitched forwards, scanning Terra's face. "Then- perhaps you'd like to hear what one is like. And, in return- perhaps you could tell me something of what your world is like." She thought that ought to be a reasonable enough trade.

[greenmagick]

Terra knew of blood and war but she knew little of the cause. She had been a weapon breed to be used as such which meant that she didn't have to understand.

Her bright blue gaze flicked up at her customer before back to the hat. She was nearly finished but she wanted to put a few touches on it that would help it stay together.

"Alright. Though I don't remember all that much about my world. When I woke up here my memories had been lost." Which was true and she didn't think K'pandolu wanted to hear about her dreams of war.

[unyieldingspirit]

Those lower in the ranks were often enough told the reasons of the fight, and not the why- if the reasons hadn't been lost, besides. If the Scions of the Seventh Dawn were to put a complete end to the summoning of primals, though- surely they would need to do more than fight.

She watched Terra's hands for a few moments, losing herself in the motions for a few moments. Then what Terra said broke through, and she jerked up, eyes wide. "You- lost your memory?" She leaned in again, looking the other over, concerned. Cid had lost his memory, at Carteneau, but- that had been more recent for him than the battlefield she'd seen the younger Terra in. Then…

She glanced at one hand, fingers curling in. If the Echo worked here- maybe that could reveal something. But everything else had seemed closed off… and she'd never felt she had a great deal of control over whether the Echo triggered or not. She breathed, fingers digging into her palm for a moment, and looked up at Terra. "I could… see if I could trigger anything," she said slowly. "It may not work, though."

[greenmagick]

Terra leaned back slightly as K'pandolu leaned forward. She wasn't used to being close to people and she was very surprised by the reaction. THe hat sat in her lap, for the moment, forgotten.

"It's alright." She had some of her memories creeping back and none were happy. She didn't think she could handle a sudden jolt like that. "Things are coming back slowly and I'm making the best of the time I have here." It was what Terra wanted.

Her eyes glanced back down to her hat and she quickly set the finishing touches of the piece.

[unyieldingspirit]

K'pandolu leaned back, back straightened, somewhat disappointed- if slightly relieved. If she couldn't deliver on what she'd promised, what good was she?

"If that's what you wish," she said with a nod. She hesitated for a moment, ears flicking. "There was something I wished to ask you about, though- about your family. But if you would rather I leave it be, I will."

She watched, intent on noting every part of the process she could. "A fine piece of work," she said. "May I?" She held out her hands for it.

[greenmagick]

Terra handed her the hat carefully watching K'pandolu curiously.

"What is it that you wish to ask?" She can always excuse herself if it was something she didn't want to answer and she'd rather give the other hero the benefit of the doubt. Terra thought about her family wondering what question she might have.

"I don't know much abut my family."

[unyieldingspirit]

K'pandolu turned the hat around for a few moments, examining it, and then slipped it on to see how it felt. Heavier now, perhaps, but not so much more than some of the helmets she'd had.

"It is about your parentage," she said, eyes on Terra's face. "In that memory I saw… the one I believe was yours… I saw a woman, a hyur- or whatever they are called in your world- and a man, who was… something else. Would you be able to tell me about them?"

[greenmagick]

Terra shook her head slowly. "I don't know much about them. I know that I saw my mother and father but that's it." She knew as much as K'pandolu did about her parents. She wouldn't be able to tell her any more.

She paused.

"What did you want to know?" Terra found it odd that someone she hadn't known would be so interested in her parents. Perhaps there was more that she didn't know? Something that made her parents special besides the obvious fact that she was now the last of her race.

[unyieldingspirit]

K'pandolu nodded, her face falling slightly. She hadn't expected much more, given Terra's memories were in the condition they were in… But it was still a disappointment. "At the least, you know their faces now," she said softly.

She straightened up, ears flicking. "One side of the fight seemed familiar to my eyes," she said, holding out one hand, palm up. "The other, though… Those beings resembled some I have seen in Eorzea, and I would know more. What they are, how they came to be- the nature of the battle that we saw." And why there had been so many. Could it hold some clue for the Scions?

[greenmagick]

Terra only heard about half of what K'pandolu said. The moment she mentioned the dream her gaze unfocused slightly becoming distant. She didn't know how much she really wanted to share with someone that she didn't know well.

"Those were Espers. My understanding is they are a race like summons in this world." Terra was going to leave it at that. Most of what K'pandolu said was in reference to her own world and so it didn't make much sense to Terra. She couldn't give her an opinion about something she didn't know.

[unyieldingspirit]

"Espers… Summons, you said?" K'pandolu's gzze fell to the floor, ears twitching back as she considered. The summoning of a primal was bad enough in Eorzea- here, she feared the worst. Her best hope was that this, too, was different- or different enough. Another thing she'd have to look into. "Are there others who would know more, then?"

[greenmagick]

Terra shook her head. “No one here.” She knew others who might have known more. Celes. Except she had been with the Empire then and was most likely unwilling to help Terra. The young girl shook her head slowly before rising from her seat.

“I’m sorry.” She inclined her head slightly. “I must get back to work.”

This wasn’t a comfortable topic for Terra and she didn’t know how much she could even explain. It hurt, not knowing.

[unyieldingspirit]

K'pandolu rose as well, one hand going to steady the hat. "Of course," she said, ears flicking back as she nodded. Clearly she'd troubled Terra. The others would have been better at this. "I apologise for keeping you overlong."

She hesitated, though, eyes going to the shop around them, and cleared her throat after a moment, one foot shifting. "There is one more thing- unrelated, I assure you," she said, and turned to gesture at the flora around them. "Do you know where I could obtain supplies for weaving- cotton, flax, and others?"

[greenmagick]

Terra paused and the nodded. “There is a shop about 6 buildings down.” She pointed towards the front of the store. “When you exit head left, it’s on the left side.”

With her directions given Terra gets back to work. She makes sure to not be rude but she has nothing else to say to K'pandolu.

[unyieldingspirit]

"Thank you," K'pandolu said, with a shallow bow. She paused to consider, ears flicking back. If it was that much for the flowers… and she assumed the price of the spell roughly equivalent to the price of crystals… She added it up, and went to place the gil on the counter with a little more for surety, before nodding and going.