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[Catch-All] Making Home

🧙 WHO: Aerith Gainsborough, You
⚔️️ WHAT: Catch-All
🕒 WHEN: March
🗺️ WHERE: Camelot, Everywhere We Need to Be
⚠️ WARNINGS: None, Will react accordingly.

01. It's Bunny Season

[Aerith has spent no shortage of time trying to get acquainted with the locals of Camelot and form positive relationships with them. It might not be the Midgar slums, but it's something similar in the way of a community. If she's going to be here for some time, then it stands to reason she ought to try to make it somewhat like home.

Hunting down a royal angora rabbit seems like the perfect way to go about that. At the quest board, she's loosely woven her hands together. And then she decides to get to work and make her rounds to the various bunny cafes.

There's no shortage of them.]

Oh, aren't you cute. A little pudgy, though. [She says with a grin, lifting a bunny as she's searching for particular traits of Sir Fuzzlerton the Cad. But the truth is, she doesn't know very much about rabbits and isn't wholly certain of what she's looking for.]

I can't tell if you look like a Sir Fuzzlerton or not.

[So she decides to hold up said bunny to the nearest cafe patron or visitor. Or possibly another person searching for the same rabbit.] Does this look like a Sir Fuzzlerton to you?

02. Harvest Moon: An Age of Camelot

[Aerith lifts a hand and draws wrist across her forehead as she looses a soft sigh. Being able to help with the fields is another thing that makes her think of home and the flowers that she tends there. She's been happy enough to lose herself in it, too, humming as she works in the soil.

Eventually she makes her way for the hay and the horses to lend a hand there as well. All in all, it's a constructive use of her time. Much better than doing nothing at all and a great way of keeping her from overthinking her situation.]

Hey. [She addresses the nearest to her as she points to a bale of hay.] Do you think you could help me move this? I want to bring it closer to the horses, so they can eat, but I don't think I can carry it on my own.

[Yes, she's already tried and probably looked pretty funny doing so. Bales of hay look deceptively light. Aerith has underestimated their true power.]

03. Flower Crowns

Hm...

[Aerith thumbs at her chin thoughtfully, the hint of a frown playing into her features. She's heard it repeatedly. Many of the merchants and locals of the town have voiced their inability to get to the flowers they would ordinarily use. It's springtime and the outskirts are no short of lovely, but Camelot itself looks a little plain without the variety of colour.

But dragons... That's probably not something a silver tongue can talk through. Basically, she knows she can't do it on her own. She'll need some help, so maybe she can convince an innocent (or not-so-inncoent bystander).

There's only one way to find out. Maybe you're shopping. Maybe you're training. Maybe you're just taking in the sights. Wherever you might be, there's an Aerith popping up ~~like a daisy~~ at your side with a smile.]

Hi there! Do you think I could borrow you for a little?

[And by a little, she has no idea if it genuinely is a little. For all she knows, this could be an all-day endeavour.]

04.Smoothies Like Jagger

[After keeping herself so occupied with the going-on's in Camelot, Aerith is overjoyed to see smoothie vendors in no short supply. Maybe it's intentional in the face of the coming equinox. It certainly seems like everyone has been keeping busy.

With a grateful exchange of the smoothie peddler she's stopped by, she becomes one Strawberry-Rose smoothie richer and takes a long moment to indulge.

It hits the spot.]

Ohhh, that's great! I hope these aren't a temporary thing. I could use a few more, honestly. Maybe I can get my hands on the recipe.

[If not for her to make it, then maybe she can find someone else to do so.]

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[Since she could remember? Perhaps that meant it was since Colette was very little. So Lloyd was like... an older brother, perhaps? Aerith listens attentively, unable to help forming judgement based on Colette's input alone, yet it was all very positive. Surely if Colette knew someone, it could only mean they were someone upstanding. She just couldn't picture anything otherwise.

She nods along slowly. Good. Colette has people from her home world here. People to look out for her if she needs it. It wouldn't be hard for someone like her to make friends, but at the same time, being in a place unfamiliar without something tying her to where she comes from would be, at the very least, a little lonely.]

I'm very happy that you have friends from your world here, even if one of them is someone you haven't exactly met yet. I know you'll make a lot of friends here. I assume you already have, actually, but nothing beats the comforts of home.

I am! Everyone except those two, everyone is a new friend!

[And, well. It's Colette and considering she considers a ninja assassin sent to kill her as a friend? Yeah. Most everyone is like a bff with her. Including Lloyd, but it isn't like she has felt up to telling him how she feels. Yet. Given her role as the Chosen and her assuming on her fate. But now she knows they figure things out. Maybe once she gets back home, or once he gets here. She might manage.

Not that she is really focusing on that though. Colette seems content enough considering the situation and all, anyway.]

Everyone is a new friend...

[Aerith feels warm just hearing that. It sounds like something she'd say, too. She'd certainly like to think just about everyone she's met in Camelot as a friend.]

I feel much the same way. I hope I can introduce you to my friends here, too. So you can make even more. Any friend of mine, Colette, is a friend of yours.

[And she can say that with the fullest confidence.]

I'm not sure if you know mine I've met yet, but. We can exchange names, a list? Arrange something sometime if you wanted.

[Colette's never going to turn down that offer of more friends. Even if she herself has plenty and makes new ones all the time with how generally cheerful and optimistic and friendly she is. So she likes the idea of getting to meet Aerith's friends, if any might not be ones she herself knows yet.]

Exchange names?

[Aerith can't help laughing a little.] Don't you think that sounds a little professional? Exchanging a list of our friends... [But she's incredibly charmed. That's no surprise. Colette oozes charisma. Seemingly effortlessly.]

I wonder if we can plan a little get together... Like a party, maybe? [...Maybe something for all of Camelot? That sounds like a huge undertaking, but not out of the realm of possibility.]

Professional? I don't know. I just figured. We won't know each other's friends unless we tell each other?

[Someone is not the most used to the idea of parties. At least where Colette herself is concerned in being the center of it. Arranging anything or having anything arranged for her. It's probably pretty well obvious Colette is rather sheltered and new in this regard, in being here where such gatherings would be a lot more common.]

You think so?

That's true, but I feel like knowing you, that kind of list could be very lengthy!

[Which is a compliment. Seems like it'd be a crime to not like Colette, so it's very easy to imagine she must be friends with just about near everyone in Camelot. If there's any truth to such a guess, that would, indeed, be a very long list.

The gears are transparently turning in her head. A party... It definitely seems like a good idea. But where to have it. When to have it. Should it be indoors or outdoors. There are a lot of things to consider and it might be worth asking the entirety of Camelot's network. At least those who use it.]

I think it's worth the consideration. [She admits with a gentle smile.] It feels like it could be a good way to meet new people, too. I think we'll need some time to really figure out details, though. I don't normally throw parties, but my friend, Tifa? I think she has a few times in the past. She might be worth asking. Besides, I think you'd love her. She's amazing.

I haven't exactly counted or anything....but that might be fun.

[She hasn't really got experience in organizing that sort of thing exactly. Colette does think it would be fun for some sort of mingling. Meeting new friends. She is a generally social person for the most part. If still with her issues with her self-esteem.]

Let me discuss it with Tifa.

[And once Aerith gets an idea in mind, it just never seems to go away, so even if she doesn't do it immediately, one way or another, it will happen. The stars need to align just so.

After a thought, Aerith reaches for her phone.]

Want to trade usernames? This way you can contact me whenever you want without having to go through the network's media entries.

Ah, sure! I'm just 'colette' if that's what you mean.

[On the phone. She gestures to it with the AOL. The network. She didn't have this stuff back home and all so of course it is still something to adjust to and all. She isn't hiding her username or anything, has no clue on hacking or any reason she might want to be more anonymous or anything.]

Oh, that's simple, isn't it.

[Aerith grins. She probably could have used her name and it would have been easy to find her. Perhaps she doesn't want to be easy to find, though. It doesn't take her any time to find Colette at all, and she taps in a friend add.]

'Pinkmemory.' That's me. There. Now we can talk whenever we want. Hopefully with fewer hunts for bunnies.

It is. I probably could have come up with something else but. My name is fine. And if my friends show up and I somehow miss them at the lake, it'll be easier for them to find me that way.

[Colette glances down at her phone when it goes off at the other adding her. Maybe she should have been more wary but. Well. This is the girl who bffs the assassin sent to kill her so. It isn't like Colette really considered that certain people back home might be a good idea to avoid.]

Pinkmemory. Alright then!

That's true. Maybe I should have done something like that, but I think I didn't want to be found so easily. With or without the network, anyone from home who really wanted to cross paths with me would be able to do so pretty easily.

[The flower shop is a dead giveaway, honestly. In a few beats of a moment more, Aerith tucks her phone away.]

Keep in touch with me, okay? I wanna hear what you spend your reward money on. Take pictures if you get something. And let me talk to Tifa and see about putting some kind of cute get together for us all.

I suppose.

[Not everyone is as trusting as Colette. Or more like, not everyone just makes friends the way she does. Even with the people sent to assassinate her. So Aerith probably has her reasons for being more cautious in letting just anyone figure she was here.]

I will keep in touch! Thanks for helping.

I should be thanking you, actually. I could have spent all day looking at rabbits and never making any progress. The company made it infinitely better. Besides, you also kept me from trying to adopt every rabbit because I definitely have no room for rabbits.

[Not to mention that they likely would eat all of Aerith's plants and that just can't be happening.]

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I owe you one. If you ever need anything, and I know you've got this plenty based on what you've told me, but I'll offer it anyway—you can come to be.

Ah, okay. Thank you.

[She can't exactly deny what the other says. That it did help in having someone to work together with. Colette definitely would agree on not having much room, as much as she would want to figure helping as many animals as she could. She gives a nod at that. She would at least keep the offer in mind and come see Aerith at the shop in any case, even if she may or may not need to take Aerith up on the offer to help in returning the favor.]

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