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[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.]

I've.....had...well. A lot. A lot explained to me about things back home since I got here. I'm just, I guess, wondering if that's happened to others too. That they don't remember as much as others from home that have shown up? How you have dealt with it? In my case....basically everything I was told since I can remember, it's all been lies. Not that I think everyone meant to, just that the truth of it all happened so long ago and they didn't know the real reasons behind the Chosen's Journey. I guess I'm still figuring it. How to feel. How to deal with knowing, now.

[Colette's had a little time now but it isn't something that she will adjust to overnight. Something that will be forgiven and understood so easily, for all that she generally is a forgiving doormat type considering her issues regarding her self-esteem because of the Chosen system she was brought up with. She takes a moment, a sigh being heard before one could possibly almost imagine and see the small smile at her lips as she tries to change topic to something lighter.]

Ah, but. I've been thinking too! About what I want to do here? What I can do to help out somehow at least. I was thinking.....um. Dogs! Maybe, like the bunny cafes? Or something like helping take people's dogs for walks or looking after them when someone goes out on a quest or something? Maybe? Either that or perhaps something with plants. Since I have that magic - Green magic. I'm still learning, but. Maybe that might be another option. To make use of these abilities here. If someone needs help with their plants, their flowers. I probably should try help out more, find work, somewhere else besides the inn to stay.