[Open] Petals & Pages - Mingle #1

[pinkmin]

♥ Who: You~ (and Vianca)
♥ Where: Shopping District - a new shop!
♥ When: January/February (Lasra/Nalom)
♥ What: Open Mingle Log
♥ Rating: Probably Pretty G

With the coming of Lasra, there was at least one new shop opening its doors in the quiet bustle of the Shopping District! There had been a distinct lack of places to simply sit in that district, but look no further if you were searching for such a spot. There are warm lights on inside, with the sights of large, comfy chairs and couches beckoning from the welcoming windows.

At times, from the same windows, you can catch sight of a pink little girl sitting near the glass, thumbing through an honest-to-goodness paper book.

Walking through the door would earn you a soft greeting. Welcome to Petals & Pages~


It's an Open Mingle Log!!
+ Shop Info is here, plus book requests.
+ Vianca will have her own top-level, and can reply to yours, but this log isn't just for interacting with her!
+ Feel free to use this post for your own plans how you please! The only House Rule is that you gotta sit with someone and get some sweet Dora, it doesn't have to be Vianca~ This includes multiple top-levels if you desire, since the log is for two months.
+ Have! Fun!!

Comments

[begguiling]

The service of Life . . . that's interesting. I can make a guess as to what that means, but I'd rather hear you explain it. These wizard rules are totally new to me, you know? You have my full attention!

[Mostly, he thinks the natives here couldn't have picked a better candidate for helping out their planet. Service of life indeed! Even robotic life. It's funny how they get some real gems and also some real losers up in here, in good samaritan terms.]

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita gets the feeling he's humoring her at least a little, but she recites the Oath without further provocation.]

In Life's name and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life's service alone, rejecting all other usages. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; and I will change no object or creature unless its growth and life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will put aside fear for courage, and death for life, when it is right to do so - till Universe's end.

[It's not in the Speech, but there's a resonance to it all the same - or perhaps that's just how she's saying it.

Settling back on the couch, she adds.]

There's variations, sometimes, in adapting to a given species' idiom or describing the tenets of the Oath with terms most important to them, but that's the crux of it.

[begguiling]

[When she's done, he applauds lightly—and he's really only keeping it light in deference to the bookstore atmosphere here. He does have some decorum! Humoring her? Of course, some, but he wouldn't even bother doing that if it weren't genuinely interesting. And informative. This may very well be important someday!]

Bravo~! That was a passionate recitation! And I guess that kind of says it all. It's no wonder you're so invested in the whys and how and what ifs of this world. Its service is the service of life, after all.

[unfavorableinstigation]

[If it IS important, that should be interesting in and of itself! But Nita's not thinking that at the moment.

In any case, she's surprised by the praise.]

I don't take my duty as a wizard lightly, that's all. Even if all I can do is try, I'm not going to leave it at half-measures if there's any way I can help it.

[Which, she reflects, is balanced by the other worry - that of interfering where it's genuinely not wanted, or in such a way that it doesn't actually solve the problems behind what's wrecked the planet of Aellyn.]