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
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Voting

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[ordimame]

[yes, actually. if she is making her way inside, he will follow!]

. . . is that why you think the producers put you together?

[researcherstory]

[ One of the things she was saddled (fond) with.......... ]

There can be little other reason, if you consider the other matches that have both been made and have yet to be. "Spark" has nothing to do with it -- though I am glad that you have been able to experience it in your young age, Makoto. Cup your hand around it when the wind blows.

[ordimame]

[yeh. can't get rid of him now!!]

I never thought our official matches were made because of "sparks." Just the ones that we chose for ourselves.

[. . .]

Come light one firework with me? Somewhere away from the rest of the party. Just you and I.

[researcherstory]

[ No, it just happens that some of those matches do very much have a spark is what she's...

... Whatever. Odile levels him with a fatigued look -- she will be happy to have a day away from the attention -- before she sighs, waving her hand. ]

One. And then I'll be secluding myself until I feel like leaving.

[ordimame]

[. . . yeah. he can understand why she is looking at him like that, and. . . perhaps it is not something he can speak on, considering how much things have changed for him in the past week. considering. . . whom he is now 100% is his perfect match]

[but. . . he can still spend time with her like this, right?]

One is more than enough for me. [a pause] . . . I know it's selfish.

But thanks for indulging me.

[researcherstory]

... The old are supposed to spoil the young.

[ Even if she's not that old, and he's not that young, she shores up on the excuse so she doesn't have to address the warmth in her chest as she inclines her head for him to follow away from everyone. He's in charge of grabbing their firework, of course. ]

I don't mind your selfishness. You're supposed to be, when you're alive. It's one of your rights as a living thing -- even animals are.

[ordimame]

You're not that old, Sachiko. And I'm pushing thirty.

[still young, but. . . not that young. either way, with her agreement, he snatches two sparklers from the pile of fireworks, before making his way towards the other side of the garden. away from the raucous celebrations!]

And maybe it's our right to be selfish. . . but I've done a lot of that in my life already.

[so he tries not to be, for better or worse]

[researcherstory]

[ One of her favorite people is thirty, so

well, she treats them the same she does her peers except on occasion, so. Maybe okay. Odile follows with a small chuckle, though she glances somewhat fondly back at their noisy fellows. They really aren't so bad, she just needs time from everything. ]

As have I. It's done you well here though, hasn't it? You can start giving to charities in thanks... or visit the shrines a little more often to show your gratitude for the gods' leniency on your insatiable greed.

[ Just a little tease as she pokes his back. ]