melodiesoflife | Opening up the flower shop~

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Opening up the flower shop~

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.
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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.

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Ramza tried to shrug off her concern. "Well enough," he deflected. "I am...in need of some flowers. Can you help?" he asked. It was the simplest of the things he needed to say to her, so he started there.

He eyed the kittens a little warily. The cats of Ivalice were large, fierce creatures. Terra was kindhearted and perhaps a little naive, and Ramza hoped she had not taken in anything dangerous.

The blond stooped near one mewling kitten and held a gloved finger out. As it licked, he checked for the tell-tale venom sacks of a Panther. It seemed gentle and poison-free, so he gave it a tentative pat on its tiny head before he stood again.

Terra smiled gently at Ramza when he asked about flowers. She was more comfortable in her flower shop and so she wasted no time walking over to a subset of her lovely plants. “What are these flowers for? A person, a room or outside?” Those were the basic three that she encountered and usually if she knew what the occasion was she could help pick out the perfect complement of flowers.

She gently removed one of the kittens that were threatening a plotted plant before looking back at Ramza. She spotted him and his curious attempts at contact with the kitten. Her smile became fonder as she watched the pair interact.

“Would you like to adopt a kitten?” She stepped over picking the little creature up which immediately began purring and licking Terra’s hand. “They all need to find happy homes.”

"EH?" Ramza gasped, eloquence lost as he took a hesitant step back from the kitten. It was not that he had never raised a creature before...but usually, it was a chocobo or another beast of battle, and there had either been a trainer or the creature's parent to help raise it.

These ones were so...tiny...and seemingly helpless. No venom, even. "Do they...grow larger?" he asked. If it was a full panther size, it would need a place in the stables, not in his tiny house/saloon.

He turned his mind away from kittens and back to business. "The flowers are for the memorial. If you have any, I would like purple wildflowers, and white lilies."

Wildflowers for Tietra, as he always left for her, and lilies for Zalbaag. They were symbols of the purity of a soul. Ramza thought his devout brother would have liked them.

"He's just a kitten. He'll grow about three times as big." Which wasn't very large compared to some of the other animals. It was about the size of a moogle except cats walked on four legs instead of flew.

Terra made her way to the collection of stem cut flowers and began to carefully sift through them. She had exactly what he wanted. The purple wild flowers that she picked were bell like in shape and grew all the way down the stalk. The white lilies were just that though the flower petals were shaped a little differently.

Once Terra had them in hand she turned towards Ramza. "Is this enough? I can package them too."

Ramza studied the tiny cat. Thrice its size was still small, unless it grew exponentially. It would fit in his house... "I have a roommate now. I shall have to ask how he feels about raising a creature," he told the mage.

He took the flowers with a grateful nod. "That shall suffice. No need to package them. I plan to take them straight away."

Well, maybe not quite so fast as that. He needed to speak to Terra still. "How are you doing?" he asked her softly. "That dream you had upset you before."

Terra pasted him the collection of flowers and nodded gently. "Ah... I'm doing alright." Even as she said the words they felt like a lie and she didn't want to lie to Ramza. She had trust him in the past with the truth and there really was no reason to hide anything now.

"Did you see the memories?" She really didnt know what to call them. "The dream was startling but I knew by it's end it wasn't me. It was scary but it wore away like nightmares do. This... this was what it felt like when I regain my memories from home. It was real and there were others there."

Terra paused for a long time picking up one of the kittens and holding it against her chest. "I saw my mother and father. I saw my home as it look and as it was being destroyed. Other people saw it too."

Ramza nodded. "Yes, I saw my own, and those of a few of our friends. But they were twisted. The events we saw were not as they truly were." He was glad Terra had not interpreted the vision as the truth.

"...but I am glad you were able to see your parents. You had no memories of them before, did you?" It must have been painful to see her home destroyed, but she could cling to that silver lining.

Terra shook her head slowly. "I didn't know what they looked like. I got to see them..." She wasn't sure if she should say more. She got to see them but she couldn't speak to them. Her mother died in her arms and her father attacked her like she was the one who tore their family apart.

She was used to experiencing confusing memories but this one was more painful than the others and now other heroes were privy to information about her lineage. "There were some people there I didn't know."

It was hard to talk about it without mentioning something painful but Terra was trying. She wanted to be able to talk to Ramza. He was the first she spoke to about her memories.

Whatever Terra had seen, it had obviously not been a happy sight. Ramza gave her an encouraging nod.

"These people you saw...were they of your world, or Heroes of Light? In mine, Heroes were there to support me." It had been a great help to him during the battle they'd fought, though he had not wished them to see the darker moments of his past.

"There were heroes from here there but not all of them were helping..." Her voice trailed of and she was silent for a moment. She took a deep breath before her crystal blue eyes looked towards Ramza again.

"I saw some people from my world too. It's very confusing... I changed and lost control." Her hand moved over her heart. "I attacked someone."

"It was not real," he insisted quickly. "You would not hurt anyone." He did not know the details, but he spoke with certainty. He met Terra's gaze and held it for a moment, unblinking. "You would never do something like that, outside of a dream."

He looked away. "Who did not help you?" he asked. He wanted names, of people who would hear from him for leaving Terra in distress. "We have a responsibility to help one another, and anyone who shirks that duty needs to answer for it."

Terra shook her head slightly. "I don't know his name but he was a hunter." A hunter of beasts. Someone who hunted people like Terra. There were a lot of people there who helped her but the end had always been the same. Her father had attacked her and tried to kill her.

She took a deep breath keeping her voice even as she spoke.

"I would hurt people Ramza. I have done so in the past...." She paused meeting his unblinking gaze. "I've seen it."

It hadn't matter that she wasn't in control. If she wanted to she could have stopped it. She knew that and yet she had killed hundreds of innocent people. There were those who fought back but there were woman and children at the end of her aim as well.

Ramza resolved to find the hunter and make him answer for his actions.

He furrowed his brow at her words. "I do not think you capable of such acts. Was that truly you, or the other you?"

The Esper, perhaps, could have attacked people. They were creatures of power, and did not have the same values as a human. But Terra the girl, the gentle mage, he could not think there was darkness like that inside of her.

“I don’t know.”

Terra’s head fell slightly. The more she thought about it, the more she realized that she and the Esper might not be two different people. They were both the same and it was a part of her that was dark and twisted. Not because of her linage but because of the tests and experiments that had taken place since she was a child.

“I was in this form… in some of my memories, where I attacked innocent people.” She was powerful and no one had escaped her strikes. That was how the Empire kept the secret of their little mage hostage for so long.

Ramza studied Terra's distraught expression.

"If you did it, you had a reason," he said firmly. He had faith in the mage, even if she had none in herself. "Whether you remember or not. You are not the kind to delight in destruction for its own sake."

"I hope you are right."

Her bright blue gaze was cast towards the ground. She wanted to believe in his words but it was so difficult when so much suggested otherwise. She's made so many happy memories here but they were all clouded by the darker memories they were built upon. If any of them knew how she truly was then they wouldn't welcome her with such open arms.

Terra looked up at Razma before shaking her head slightly. "I'm sorry for worrying you."

Ramza waived away her apology. "You can always confide in me. I will never consider it a burden." Because while it was worrying to hear that Terra thought herself capable of harming innocents, it would have been more concerning if she had said nothing and suffered alone.

He gathered his flowers and slipped a few gil coins from his money pouch to pay her. "Is this enough?" he asked.

Terra nodded taking the coins in hand and placing them behind the counter. She was grateful for Ramza's words even if she was a little unsure of herself. She wanted to believe that she wouldn't do those things but it was hard when her memories suggested otherwise.

"Thank you."

She smiled at him feeling a a warmth grow in her chest. She was lucky to have Ramza as a friend even though she wasn't able to show it very well.

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