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She was going to marry your prince? But that would make your nations allies, wouldn't it?

Yes, sort of. Big Bird is a character on a TV program for entertaining and educating children. I used to watch it sometimes. He's a large yellow bird about 250cm tall. And very feathered.

yeah... kind of
it's a long story
kind of a...sad story

hmmmm interesting
maybe that's a good idea tho
bc i've got another secret
that you don't know about at all~

Hm. Well, I've heard it the way that Ravus tells it. I'd be interested in hearing your version, too. But only if you want to tell me.

You're keeping secrets from me? 😭

ah, did he tell you everything?
we can talk about it sometime for sure
maybe with some coffee n cuddles

you mean you aren't keeping any from me??
well now i feel bad~

I don't know what "everything" encompasses. Although, knowing Ravus, it's doubtful he did; he's not the type to show all his cards if he can help it. But I told him about my mother, so he told me about his.

I'm a girl, I'm supposed to keep secrets. 😉

i don't have to be jealous of ravus, right...
because i'll totally lose.....

ok~ secret for a secret then
fair's fair?

Ravus thinks we're cute and actively supplied me with a subject matter you like to talk about so that I could ask you about it and give you a chance to show off for me. I don't think he'll be stealing me away from you anytime soon.

A quid pro quo, I like that. Agreed.

i'll have to thank him
by not...pushing him into the pool
or hitting him with ice
or crying all over him

he beat me at arm wrestling too but
i let him win
obviously

ok, ladies first 😊

He just bought a house. You could get him a housewarming present.

All right, let's see. My favorite keepsake from home is a red rose preserved in a small glass tube. Someone gave one to me as a gift when I was thirteen, but it got broken and I lost it until a few weeks before I arrived here, when someone else gave me another.

ah...that's really sweet of them
kinda romantic too~
are roses your favorite flower?

My favorites are actually magnolias. No one ever puts them in bouquets because the blossoms are so large, but...

I spent a lot of time in a foreign country when I was young, and I remember seeing magnolia trees in bloom. When the petals fall they make a carpet of pink and white on the ground underneath, and I thought it looked like something out of a fantasy.

magnolias huh...
those flowers with like the biiiig wide petals?
gotcha

i actually asked someone about ur favorite flower recently
so it's good to have an answer 😊

Oh, you're doing research on me, are you?

Remember the first time we met? I wanted to see the night-blooming gardens and their flowers. I never told you that was the reason, did I. It was because I wanted to be outside, and to see the flowers.

says the person who came to me saying
essentially
that she had dirt on me

does the garden have them?
magnolias i mean

i was kinda distracted that night
looking at something else
i saw the flowers, but didn't really...see them

It might...they would've been out of season when we went, but by now it'd be in bloom. I'll check the next time I'm out.

Oh? What were you looking at that was prettier than the flowers?