{4th Seal; video}

[angelolatry]

[Colette seems cheerful enough at least, as usual. If perhaps a little nervous but at the same time, given what she wants to discuss perhaps that is to be expected. Thinking about the future is difficult. Scary. Especially when previously she hasn't really had reason to plan, to need to think about the future. In assuming she would only live to see sixteen. That she had it all planned out for her in being the Chosen. She sits in her room at the inn again, curled up on the bed with Emerald at her lap.]

I've been thinking. About what I want to do here, I mean! I think I want to....um. Remember those bunny cafes? I want to do something like that? But for dogs! Maybe where people can come meet some that are waiting to be adopted? I'm not the best at cooking but I do okay? Or maybe if someone else wanted to help with that. I'm not sure on how big -- how busy this sort of thing would be? But for dogs it might need to be a little bigger than the bunny cafes....

I'll still help out with anyone that wants it for their plants or flowers or crops to help them grow too! I just figure. I like dogs. And sweets. So....as long as I figure the right place. And have enough money for it? Even then, I'm not really used to thinking about the future. What I want to do, anything after my Journey.

[She fidgets a little but she does figure seeming to calm more when Emerald briefly raises her head for pets.]

I was also going to ask. I know birthdays have been mentioned. I guess they still count? Even here? Because. Um. Mine is the end of the month. I'd be seventeen.

[Seventeen years old. The girl who was never expected to live past sixteen. This concept of being seventeen, older even. Having a future. It's.....new. Still something she is adjusting to. Definitely. But she's trying. Learning.]

And I guess here, it won't be a church ceremony. Like I've had up till now back home on my birthday.

[This would be. More about her. About Colette. Not the Chosen. About it being one year closer to her leaving for her Journey. It would certainly be new. A different way to celebrate. Probably more akin to when she was twelve and Lloyd and Genis made her that pendant and cake.

Still, for now she simply gives a small smile, even as she finishes up.]

But I guess. For others it's usually.....a party, right? With cake and all your friends?

[At least. She recalls as much from others having their birthday. From when Lloyd had his. Or Genis. It's kind of exciting? If also kind of strange and new and nerve-wrecking in her not having really properly done this birthday thing before herself exactly.]

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voice; un: flamek

[flamekthunder]

[There's a light smile as he hears about Colette's endeavors as well as her upcoming birthday.]

I see you're pursuing with the dog cafe idea. Like I said before, if you need my assistance with the dogs you only need to ask.

As for birthdays... I think it varies depending on one's preference. [......Hmmm?] Have you never had a birthday party before?

voice; un: colette

[angelolatry]

Ah. I might? I'll let you know if I do. [Maybe. If she isn't too stubborn in trying to do it herself.]

But ah, that is....there was my twelfth birthday? Genis made me a cake and Lloyd made me a pendant. But it's always been a church thing for my birthday. Celebrating being a year closer to me leaving for my Journey.

[So. Not so much about Colette herself. More about yay, one year closer till she gets to sacrifice herself for us!]

[flamekthunder]

[....Hrm. That's kind of...]

...I see. Is there something you'd particularly want? Either to do or as a gift.

[angelolatry]

I hadn't really thought about it?

[Aside from the obvious of figuring her new magic more. Going to school here. Figuring a job like this. She hadn't considered gifts. Or what else she would like to do. There's a lot she missed out on in being so sheltered back home but she doesn't necessarily realize how much she missed out on.]

[flamekthunder]

[...Colette please.]

...I know you like dogs and animals, but what about other hobbies? Favorite books or other things you like?

[HE'S GOING TO LEAVE PARTY QUESTIONS TO OTHER PEOPLE MORE EQUIPPED FOR THAT so he'll just...focus on what kind of gift he might drop off for her.]

[angelolatry]

Hobbies? Ah. Um, well.....I liked reading. Novels or fairytales sort of thing I guess? I suppose different worlds have different books or stories but maybe there's some that might be similar. I like baking too!

[She does have a sweet tooth, after all. Not that she is as good as Genis, but even so. Colette enjoys it. She's never really had to think on gift ideas? What she liked? It didn't really seem to matter so much back home, considering nobody really asked, in only seeing her as the Chosen. Not getting close enough to ask, to really get to know her as Colette.]

[flamekthunder]

Hm... I see. [He'll muse a bit.] I'll see what I can do.

And I suspect there will be several who will be willing to throw you party. You should tell them what you'd like and your preferences as well.

[angelolatry]

My preferences? I guess I can try think of some. The closest thing I had to a party back home was Genis making a cake that he and Lloyd ate with me. Lloyd made me a pendant.

[So. Yeah. This sort of thing is new to her. Suffice to say. At least in the concept of it being her party.]

[flamekthunder]

[...He has no room to talk given that he doesn't really do the birthday party thing himself, but this still sounds...pitiful.]

...Would you like having a lot of people or just close friends?

[angelolatry]

Mmm. I'm not sure. I guess I'm more used to it being everyone with the church celebrations back home usually. I've met so many people here. I'm not sure even if I wanted something smaller it might end up bigger anyway.

[Because. Yeah. Colette has befriended so many at this point. Surprising nobody given her cheerful, optimistic and friendly nature and all.]

[flamekthunder]

[A small laugh.]

You might be right. If you haven't had a proper birthday party, it might be better if it were filled with all your friends.

[angelolatry]

I wouldn't want anyone to miss out. So.....yes!

[Her birthday likely would be a big affair with most everyone invited, knowing her.]

[flamekthunder]

Hm... I think games are also common for parties.

[Thinks because he hasn't really participated in any birthday parties or many celebrations in a long while, but he does recall the few from his past and what he's seen over the years.]

[angelolatry]

Games? What sort of games?

[She more recalls games from parties when they were much younger. At Lloyd and Genis's at least. She isn't sure if here or elsewhere there might be different games? So it can't hurt to ask at least.]

[flamekthunder]

[...Ehm.....hmmmmmmmmm.]

...That I'm not sure of. It's been a while since I participated in any birthday events, and any I would have been in would have been more for adults.

The only other games I can think of are the ones the children of my village used to do.

[angelolatry]

What games did the children in your village play?

[That might work out better? Than figuring what to do for adults where Colette is concerned and how most of that sort of thing might go over her head anyway.]

[flamekthunder]

[Yeah no, no drinking games for Colette ever

At her question he hesitates a little. Although he hadn't forgotten, it had been quite a long time since he's really thought about it. But as soon as he draws upon those memories, what was once a little hazy start to clear as if it were just yesterday.]

...I grew up in a small, rural village, so everything was more traditional and simple compared to other places. [His voice starts quiet, expression nostalgic, almost wistful.] So whenever it was someone's birthday, all the kids would gather around since we all knew each other to play. We usually played games like tag, kick ball, hide-and-seek... [Hm...oh.] There was also a game where the one whose birthday it was would be "king" or "queen" and would order everyone to do silly challenges. Mimicking animals, singing, stand on their heads, ride the pig.

[A small laugh.]

It really was simpler time back then.

[angelolatry]

Tag and hide and seek seem simple enough. I know those. The King or Queen one would be new. Riding pigs?

[She can tell though it is a fond memory for him. And it brings to mind the sort of thing she would play with Lloyd and Genis back when. Years ago. Kind of nostalgic on her end as she recalls the way Lloyd would hide and jump out at her.]

[flamekthunder]

Pigs, goats, sheep. Whatever farm animal was nearby.

[angelolatry]

I know of riding horses perhaps but I'm less familiar with the idea of riding a pig or sheep.

[Still, she supposes children are smaller and don't weigh as much so it might be more possible for them to do so. She just finds it amusing to picture.]

[flamekthunder]

...Ah. [A small laugh.] We only did that for fun, though the animals themselves probably thought otherwise.

[angelolatry]

Probably they did.....but the important thing is nobody was hurt or anything, at least. If it was just fun. Makes me miss Noishe.....

[Scaredy dog that he was, fleeing at the sight of monsters. That....he wasn't actually a dog as they has thought, as Lloyd had kept insisting all those years but still. He was rather uniquely coloured and huge for a dog so maybe that should have been obvious in hindsight....]

[flamekthunder]

Noishe?

[angelolatry]

Ah, Noishe is Lloyd's dog! I mean....uh. Protozoan. Like my Emerald, but a little bigger and a boy.

[Weird white and green 'dog' and all. Yeah. That.]

[flamekthunder]

...I take it a Protozoan is a species that resembles a canine. [But you know what good enough.] How big do they get?