week four | match ceremony

[marriagebroker]

Tonight, they're back at the courtyard for the fourth and final time. Nothing has changed too drastically decor wise, there are still lanterns abound and a table full of food and drink. There is also now a third couch near the special couches for Messmer and Odile, if they so choose to sit there. But again, you do you! Wei Wuxian is certainly not going to stop you.

Speaking of that guy, he's here and dressed to impress again. He's looking snazzy. He's waiting for everyone to arrive, watching as they do and grinning broadly all the while. Then when everyone arrives, he clears his throat and begins to speak.

"You all have achieved three of the eight lights you need to win the game. With the match of Messmer and Odile, you only have to light up five lights tonight to succeed. Let's hope you pick right, huh?"

But he has complete faith in everyone! So, let's get this show on the road.

"Team Wangji, you're up."

Comments

[ordimame]

[MACARONI GIRL. . .]

[this conversation feels like a flashback to their very first meeting, and something about that makes Edamura feel. . . nostalgic. even if that meeting was only four weeks ago!]

Hey, hey. . . I don't want to get ahead of myself. I don't think they're that good.

But I appreciate the compliment.

[enscene]

[It really does, doesn't it? It's a great bookend to their time here together, and it indicates just how much has changed in such a short while and yet how much is familiar and the same.]

Turning a passion commercial can be enough to strip enjoyment away... Very well, then! You'll just have to agree to cook for me when I have need of personal service! I'll pay fairly, of course.

[...Which means she'll probably have to build up her savings a little bit more before she can compensate him for catering for her, but shh.]

[ordimame]

[oh my god]

[IS SHE OFFERING HIM A JOB???]

Whoa, whoa! Is that. . . a serious offer?

[enscene]

Why not? I can no longer afford the haute cuisine salary of my former patisserie supreme, [sad face... Escoffier's cooking really is unparalleled] but I'm sure she'd like your dishes as well as I do! I don't see the harm inviting your services for special occasions and festivals and the like.

[Though he might end up on the receiving end of a cute blonde Gordon Ramsay lady. Furina seems pretty content with her invitation, too, because she goes back to nibbling on her skewer.]