124. Plans

[corrinesbell]

I've been thinking about it for the past few days, and I think...I think I wanna have a tea house. It was...I liked it. Anyone wanna point me in the right direction for a place where I could put one? The place it was...y'know, before...isn't what I can use anymore.

[She's thought about how doing something like this is pretty much declaring, after all this time, a belief in the permanence of her situation. ...Oh well. It's also something to do and maybe it'll give other people here a chance to just not think about some stuff, if they need the chance.]

Hey, Elicia? D'you think I could come and...look at some of those, uh, pictures you had? ...The ones from the orchard, I mean.

[Alternately, you can meet up with her on her way to the clothing shop to see if there's anything...well, if there's anything.]

Comments

[Voice]

[corrinesbell]

I think...that it'd be tough to be reminded of home all the time like that.

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

Do all reminders from home make you unhappy?

[Voice]

[corrinesbell]

No! I mean...I don't think 'unhappy' is the right word. It's just...

[filtered]

I feel like doing this means I've kinda accepted that I'm gonna be here for...longer than I wanna be. Why think about home even more now that I've figured that out?

[Filtered]

[wise_maiden]

I would think that getting engaged would bring more of that feeling than opening a shop... but I suppose I can't say very much, given I opened a school.

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[corrinesbell]

Getting...engaged might've never happened if we were still home. Mizuho didn't think much of outsiders, or the Church, and he's...kinda the extreme of both of those.

[Filtered]

[wise_maiden]

You don't know that for certain. All we're sure of from home is that we're still trying to put things together. Zelos is farther than us, isn't he?

... But I apologize. Now really isn't the time to bring something like that up.

[Filtered]

[corrinesbell]

Yeah, and he didn't exactly come back here telling me I'd already agreed.

Do you have any name ideas?

[Filtered]

[wise_maiden]

That doesn't mean you should willingly write it off just because it's not determined.

... No, I don't. [Since you said you didn't want any names from home.]

[Filtered]

[corrinesbell]

Do you really not?

[something about that hesitation was telling]

[Filtered]

[wise_maiden]

You said you didn't want any reminders from home. Besides, I don't really have any certain ideas; I'm not much of a namer of things. It's your establishment, so the name should come from your heart. Don't you think?

[Filtered]

[corrinesbell]

I dunno, I've never had to name anything before.

Did you have some kinda idea from home?

[Filtered]

[wise_maiden]

I already told you, not specifically. I just thought that maybe there was something there you wouldn't have minded having the reminder of...

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[corrinesbell]

I guess I can think about it.

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[wise_maiden]

You still have some time anyway. First you have to get everything organized, figure out schedules, and of course advertise...

[Filtered]

[corrinesbell]

It's not like it's gotta be a successful business or anything. Right now I don't even know if anyone but me and probably Zelos is gonna work there.

[Filtered]

[wise_maiden]

From the sounds of it, it seems like a few people are interested. If you're going to get invested in something, you might as well give it your all.