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.

Boom Boom Room | Dates | Property Damage
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[gamboler]

[ Good fortune, huh...maybe he should consider joining her in her efforts.

Even if he's got a good feeling about their choices for tomorrow, it's hard not to be a little nervous, isn't it? Like Yingying, he's only just allowed him to hope again after what feels like a lifetime. It's a fledgling, fragile little thing, and if things don't wind up working in their favor...

Well. He'd still go home with Nico. But his wish should make things much easier on the departure, and besides — his own wish is the one he's least concerned with ensuring comes true. Anything they can do to increase their chances, or just to take the nervous edge off, is certainly welcome.

Approaching the wisteria, Kakavasha leans against the trunk, glancing down at the sachets. She put a lot of work into those, didn't she? ]

Now I feel as though I jumped the gun in asking you what your wish would be the other night. I suppose the least I can do is return the favor.

[ He...think he's got it nailed down, now, barring some wording changes, so they don't have some kind of monkey's paw situation. ]

[embellwish]

[ She raises her head to look at him leaning against the trunk, smiling knowingly. ]

The one you'll leave in the hands of someone else, you mean?

[ Playfully, while she lifts up a hand to catch one of the falling violet petals. ]

I can tell you more about my wish, if you're feeling shy, my dear. [ She only gave him the basics, after all, and like she had alluded to... it's a complicated matter. ] Or — are you feeling extra sure already?

[gamboler]

Some of the wording is still in the workshop, to ensure there's no unintended snafus, but...I'm sure.

[ After speaking with everyone, and with Nico, it had become clear what he needed to do, what his wish should be. It's...rather simple, perhaps a little too simple, but that's not such a bad thing, really. He could use a little more simplicity in his life.

He moves to sit down under the tree next to her, propping himself up with one hand, the opposite elbow resting against a bent knee. ]

I'd like to hear more about your wish, too, if you don't mind, but I can go first. As a show of good faith. [ A beat, his expression growing a little softer. ] I intend to wish...to be in control of my own fate.

[ It doesn't have to be all or nothing anymore. This is what freedom really means to him; to make his choices, and to make them count. ]

[embellwish]

[ After hearing about his inescapable fate with regards to his employment... the chains of his luck.... there's only one way in which she could see that wish. ]

...Heh. What a beautiful wish. [ She bumps her shoulder with his, then gestures with a hand to the cascading flowers around them. ] The blooms heard it — I'm sure it'll come true. Through one way or another.

[ Of course, she has no direct power to bless or grant such a wish. But there are more than a thousand ways for any one which to be granted, whether through divine powers or those simply from the earth and people around them. ]

Will you make it with your hands? Or leave it in Nico's care, perhaps?

[gamboler]

[ How exactly it comes true will be a surprise even to him, and honestly, that's how he prefers it. Nothing should be set in stone and immovable, and he thrives on the thrill of unpredictability. Just knowing that the outcome is heading in the right direction is good enough for him.

The falling blossoms, floating on the whims of the air, seem to understand that, too. ]

That, I'm still figuring out. He has something important to use his wish for, too...but if he'll allow it, I'd like to make mine on his behalf. As a sign of...not trust, exactly. Rather...commitment, I suppose.

[ And it's an awfully romantic notion, isn't it? Each of them entrusting the will of their wishes to the other. ]

[embellwish]

Commitment...

[ She hums, conspiratorial. ]

Could it be that you're betrothed already? And so fast, too...

1/2

[gamboler]

[ Be...trothed...... ]

2/2

[gamboler]

[ It takes a lot to fluster him, but this just does the trick, causing him to sputter wordlessly for a few moments before: ]

Good heavens, n-no! I barely let him call me his boyfriend, Miss Yingying!

[ COMMITMENT IS TERRIFYING OKAY!!!!! ]

[embellwish]

[ oh... flustered aventurine unlocked..... yingying will remember this. ]

Oh? So you've only thought about it, then.... or, I wonder if he already has a ring?

[ They're going off together, and Aventurine's the one that said he found a star-crossed lovers' tale with a happy ending romantic. The jokes write themselves! ]

You "barely let him?" So, you don't want him to be your boyfriend, then?

[gamboler]

[ He has a feeling that something very dangerous has happened just now...

He clears his throat, attempting (and failing) to regain some composure and dignity. ]

I only didn't want him rushing into something when he was still getting to know me. That's all! I've never...pursued a relationship like this before, you know. I intended to treat things delicately, as such.

[ Oh, he is still blushing very sincerely. ]

[embellwish]

So that's what has you so nervous and worried about how it'll go. Your first love...

[ She laughs openly, the sound fond and doting. Aw, her cute little Aventurine... she could pinch his cheeks, but she valiantly restrains herself from doing so. ]

I never would have guessed you had such a sweet, innocent side at the beginning.