week four | mingle

[marriagebroker]

Final week at the estate! Final week with your friends. Final week with your beaus. Time to make the most of it, everyone!

In fact, to celebrate this fact, today there is a cake. It's nothing special, just a nice little cake to enjoy with your morning coffee or throughout the day. Yay, cake!

And when Wei Wuxian arrives that morning, he is going to call out once again for everyone to join him, near the cake.

"Everyone, I have another announcement!"

Hell yeah, announcements.

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[enscene]

[It's too bad, since Odile could easily pass being Poppy detection even if she had someone, using the cover of being a sweets denier...though Furina also thinks that she's not the type to care if that sort of information is revealed about her.]

Their loss, I think. Someone would be very fortunate to have your companionship. [Which she does not just mean in a BBR-way, but Furina's foot-in-mouth tendencies might make it sound more salacious than intended even then.]

[researcherstory]

[ It's true... alas. Poppy doesn't seem inclined to bother her about it anyway, since she's officially a Cool Old Person now.

And

Yes, her words do make it sound salacious, but Furina, to her, is more of an elegant, innocent sort... A noble heart. Odile smiles slightly, hands folded in her lap as she sits to watch Edamura try his hand at nabbing a piece anyway. ]

Perhaps one day. I still have a third of my life to go, at the very least. Who can say what tomorrow may bring.

[ Like




not literally tomorrow Odile doesn't think she's getting anything here but-- ]

Regardless, thank you. Care for some tea to enjoy the show with?

[enscene]

Think of all the things that could happen in that time. Never mind that: Think of all the things that could happen now! [Scaffolding the future is still something that doesn't fully resonate with Furina all the time, so she'd rather focus on what Odile's enjoying in this final week. It could literally be tomorrow! Maybe Furina will wingman Odile a great deal out of this.

Not that she needs any of that help from Furina, who's still trying to figure out a great many things.]

Don't mind if I do! I could never reject such a polite tea party invitation. [Needing literally no more encouragement than that, she tips her hat and curtseys before taking a polite seat, scooting the tail-like train on her skirt up under her.]

Thank you, by the way, for your gift the other week. I've been enjoying it in the afternoons. It has a lovely flavor!

[researcherstory]

[ If Furina can somehow wrangle a lover for Odile in a week that will be a literal achievement, good luck. She'll get a cup to pour the little lady some she'd been having, a tasty oolong with notes of citrus. ]

I thought you'd like it, with your sweet tooth... Honeybush is supposed to have a myraid of health benefits as well, but I wasn't considering those for you like I did Messmer's.




[ yeah she really put thought into these tea gifts okay don't @ her you're all her skrunkles now or whatever ]

[enscene]

[Oh, yay, they're all her skrunklies! Furina beams. Directing a romance to blossom for Odile during the precious little time they have left here might not be entirely in her purview, but she can certainly make her know she's appreciated.]

What sorts of health benefits? I suppose now's the time to start thinking more about my health, anyway.

[researcherstory]

[ More than good enough, actually. It has the same effect of embarrassing her. ]

Beyond time, going by your age. Honeybush in particular is known for helping with digestion as well as keeping the skin looking young, and with it being low in caffeine it is popular as a soothing tea one can have before bed. Many mothers use it as a natural remedy for insistent coughing as well.

[ So it's actually! Quite handy! There's also a load of other sciencey-things and chemicals that help with women's health but that is beyond her world. ]

[enscene]

Well...you see, that only recently became a concern! [Being immortal and having other things on one's mind does tend to make one not pay that much attention to personal health. Not that she hadn't been particular, in her own way, but boy... humanity has hands, in this regard in particular.] Mademoiselle Crabaletta has been very persistent in getting me into better shape lately... You could advise her on how to look out for someone's health.

[Sorry, Odile, she's definitely realized that this was thoughtfully chosen, not a backhanded swipe at aging, and that she's being a bit worried over right now.]

[researcherstory]

[ No... Her image... Oh, well. Everyone finds out eventually. ]

I suppose I would not mind that very much, though it will be more a lesson in tea and some old wives' tales about dietary advice if nothing else. [ Power hour with Odile and Mademoiselle Crabaletta. ] Has anything else become a concern as of late, Furina? That is unfamiliar to you.