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[Red hair, familiar hat, and a crimson red traditional outfit today. Chuuya's got a bottle of sake and is here to enjoy the flowers in full bloom for the afternoon.

The call of his name has his trying to turn his head, but then Setsura is wrapping her arms around him and dropping into his lap, and he has to focus on trying not to spill his sake on her with a short, happy laugh and a smile.]

Hey there, pretty bird.

[ She wrinkles her nose with an easy smile and reaches up to -- yes, she is absolutely reaching to tap the tip of his nose with her pointer finger. ]

Hey, yourself. Enjoying the festival?

[Chuuya’s smile grows at that playful gesture, his one free hand curling lightly around her waist. Should he be concerned about tipping over? Naaaah.]

Sure am. It’s a beautiful view here, you know?

Is it?

[ She glances up at those blossoms, but those eyes of hers settle on him again, and easy. She's already settled into his lap. As far as she's concerned, she's got the best seat in the house, after all. ]

Did you have to wait for it or should I be worried about someone falling out of the sky sometime soon?

[Is he talking about the blossoms, or Setsura?

The answer is both, really. That she gets his meaning only gets a pleased look.]

Nah, it's just perfect now. No people falling from the sky necessary.

Mm.

[ She pauses and straightens a little, looking him over. ]

Almost.

[ Almost perfect. She shifts in his lap, settling again and reaching into that satchel of hers once she rights it about her neck. If he opens his mouth before she finds the first little box, she'll put a finger to his nose. Cheek? Lips.

She's very intent about searching, really. Actually, more like second guessing a decision she made earlier about what order she plans on giving him certain things, but -- ]

[ But she beams, pulling a rather high end box carefully wrapped with gold trim out of her satchel and she's offering it to him with both hands. ]

Here! This should do it.

[He is absolutely about to open his mouth and ask what she means by 'almost', but that finger stops him... and the kiss that follows. Okay, he can wait and be patient. He's curious what her satchel has to do with this, though. She seems oddly serious about--

oh. He looks surprised by the offered box for a long second, but it's clear it's a gift for him from the way she holds it out, so he reaches out to accept it.

It looks.... kind of high end, actually. Iiiinteresting.]

A present...? What's the occasion?

[At some point during all this his fluffy dog tail has appeared, and it's now wagging happily behind him.]

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[ That question gives her pause and that pause is extended when she feels that movement, which... causes the corners of her mouth to tug upward in a very particular way because she knows. Her expression softens just so and that pause ends with her heart skipping a beat as she answers. ]

Open it first and I'll explain.

[He quirks a brow at that.]

Well alright.

[Don't mind if he does then. He's just going to ignore that quirk of her lips, a bit of redness coming to his cheeks as he works the box open. The ears are one thing, but the tail says so much--

So what's inside?]

[ Inside the box is a sleek black bow handcrafted from nothing short of the finest materials Setsura could get her hands on. The central band is the same deep violet color of her eyes and the black cloth soft, but durable and cut particularly so as it be accented by the overlay of one highly prominent, blacker than pitch feather woven to extend from each side of the band for a total of two. Their hers, of course, and the bow should be an easy, sturdy attachment.

She'd made it that way, after all. ]

I don't gift these to just anyone.

[ She begins there because it's easiest. ]

A person who is gifted and wears one of my feathers is mine. Where I come from, everyone knows that and the wise respect it. It's more than a declaration, though. If I I need to find you and you're wearing it, I can easily and -- [ she pauses, wondering again for a brief moment how to explain this to someone who isn't from her world and may not know what she knows ] -- it also serves as a protection against misfortune in a literal sense. I can't stress that enough.

[ It isn't a gag spell and she doesn't want him to think it is. She glances at it, very quietly proud of her craftsmanship and nods slightly, a little breathlessly. ]

It feels like the right time.

[Chuuya stares at the contents of the box quietly. He's immediately struck by the quality of the item in the box--handmade, probably with--

Those feathers. Oh.

He's silent during her explanation, looking up from the box to look at Setsura in surprise. This is a part of her, and as much as he liked playing with the feathers in her hair, even without the explanation he'd have understood it was significant. With it, though....

It's a gift with multiple layers of meaning, heavy meaning, and something indescribably warm fills his chest, a soft smile coming to his lips as her explanation finished.]

....You put a lot of thought into this, didn't you?

[He tugs one of his gloves off with his teeth, letting the ever-present leather covering fall to the ground as he reaches out to gently stroke the bow he's been gifted, the feather woven into it, something soft and thoughtful in his eyes.

A person who is gifted and wears one of my feathers is mine, huh...?]

[ She isn't sure what she was expecting, but that look, that softness about his smile, his eyes, that thoughtfulness -- she couldn't have imagined it accurately, and she'd wondered. Of course she had. If he'd understand, how he might look, react -- a person isn't obligated to accept a gift, no matter the weight, but looking at him now, seeing how gently he strokes the bow, something warm flutters in her chest as she finds her breath again. ]

I wanted the form to be something that suited you, something useful that you'd like, so if there's anything about it you don't like or you think can be improved...

[ Is she talking a little quickly? ]

[She is talking quickly, and while Chuuya would never claim to be the king of social graces, he knew nervousness when he heard it. His smile grows a little more as he leans in to press a light, quick kiss to her lips to halt the flow of words so he can get a few of his own in.]

I love it. I think it would look quite nice on my hat, don't you? [He thinks that was her intention, actually.] I've always thought your feathers were beautiful.

[He reaches up with his free hand, thumb brushing against one of those feathers in Setsura's hair fondly.] Thank you.

[Those two words carry a weight of emotion behind them, and it's not just the act of being given a gift itself that he's thanking her for, either. It's the thought put into it, it's the fact that she cares this much to give him something so intimate, so personal. It's the consideration for his wellbeing.

It's care in a physical object, and he treasures it and her all the more for it.]

[ She doesn't quite realize the tension that melts from her bodily as he speaks. That she's been holding her breath, how she lights up, the heat from cheeks tinged pink well before his thumb brushes her feather with such emotion and pink blossoms into a fine shade of red. She hadn't imagined this and that "thank you," she... can't quite hear over heart thundering in her ears.

She certainly doesn't realize the red that seems to shoot from his fingertips through the feather he's touching and create a distinct highlight in her tresses, settling in the same red as his hair.

Her words? She finds them, glancing down to her satchel rather than moving and breaking that contact. ]

Don't thank me just yet. I have something else for you.

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