Slight disconnect

That time of the year was here again, everyone was graduating, and Rosie got talked into helping to make floral arrangements thanks to her mother’s business. 

Rosie let out a long sigh as she snipped another stem with her florist clippers and wrapped the three flowers in florist tape 

“Do you have anymore ribbon?” Rosie asked not looking up from her work she was missing the white ribbon to wrap them in. She was already frustrated with this project, do you know how hard it is to find a flower that symbolizes congratulations that won’t harm a fey, vampire, siren, or whatever and goes with the school colors?! much harder than you’d think. Eventually she’d managed to just convince the school to let her do Calla lilies, purple and white carnations wrapped in ribbons of the school colors. Just for simplicity sake, lilies never hurt any magical creatures to her knowledge. Throw some babies breath in there for some filler and the little bouquets looked….decent. 

“My mother would be so mad that this is the best I can do with a stupid bouquet” she muttered to herself as she pinned some more flowers in place and began wrapping them.

Sage noticed a flower shop and paused for a moment. Flowers were a bland classic, but maybe a shop on their magical island would have some extra flair. It was worth a shot, so she headed inside. A student was putting together some small purple bouquets behind the counter. When the worker asked for ribbon, she replied, “No I don’t. I’m a customer.” She still looked around for some ribbon and saw some laying on the other end of the counter. Since the florist had their hands full, Sage brought it over. “This?”

The dragon picked up the muttered comment and frankly agreed that it was pitiful. Where was the flair? Wyvernhoard required more…just more. Sage chose to not acknowledge the comment, however, as she wasn’t here to reinforce someone’s parental judgement.

“Sorry about that, what can I help you with?” Rosie asked her leaning against the counter a bit 

“If you’re interested the tulips and sunflowers are on special right now, I think the sunflowers look great with some irises and babies breath.” Rosie offered her she wasn’t much for sales, she didn’t work much other than helping out at her mother’s shop occasionally otherwise she was very much the trust fund child

“Hey!” she cried as she glared up at the person clinging to the shelves above her her eyes flashed to dragon like orbs showing she wasn’t happy but she took a deep breath to calm her nerves, gritting her teeth she glared up at he other again

“You should be more careful, you’re going to hurt someone doing things like that.” 

time: late night

status: open

          Percy liked the library at night when that many people weren’t around. It meant that there were less people staring at him and that was a good thing. Before coming to Katmere, he wasn’t really in the public eye, so it was strange, these last four years, having to be in public at all. Even if Katmere was technically on an island and only supernaturals were around, it was still strange to be in the eye of people that weren’t the staff at his manor and people he saw at the dojo. Whenever he could, Percy tended to stay up late and go to the usually crowded areas at the university when they weren’t so crowded. He kept his head down. Grabbing a book from the shelf that he thought he needed, Percy took a seat at one of the tables. “Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000. Boring.” As if he wasn’t the one that decided to study law. He could have studied Business. 

Needless to say on top of that grade being frustrating enough, having her father find out and chew her out over the phone had not improved her mood at all. Despite being a bit air headed and lax, Rosie was a good student taking her grades very seriously so that she could attempt to impress her father she just didn’t like to show that she was book smart.

Casa Vista, Rancoso, Province of Bahia, Brazil,

Designed by Marcio Kogan and his colleagues Samanta Cafardo and Beatriz Meyer, together with the landscaper Isabel Duprat,

Rosie smiled and took his hand “Rosie Marina-Manx,” Rosie introduced herself as well 

“Do you have any idea what he just said?” Rosie asked poking the person next to her gently with their pen, she’d gotten distracted in the lecture by the lecturers necklace, even from here she could see that the gold was fake and the gemstone, while beautiful was definitely man made sapphire. Rosie herself had always thought that Sapphires went better with silver anyway and- well she was doing it again spacing out as she shook the thoughts from her head

“Nice to meet you too, I apologize it may take me a few times to get your name right.” She said she leaned bak in her chair a little bit and started fiddling with her ring, todays stone was a ruby that she twisted around her finger to fidget with, she wanted one of those fidget rings but they were so low quality of metal she’d never be able to face another dragon wearing something like that.

Rosie took a seat and set up her laptop and set her coffee down a little ways away to avoid spilling directly on her computer 

“Thanks,” She said with a sweet smile as she started up her computer, at the question she looked up at the other

“Dragons can shift their sizes in their dragon forms, wouldn’t that be a sight to have a tea cup sized dragon playing on a computer?” Rosie asked with a slight chuckle at he mental image of her, tiny dragon form, tail wrapped around her cup and trying to type on her keys while staring at a giant tv screen. 

Usually Rosie was sensitive about her dragon forms size, she couldn’t figure out how to grow and staying tiny was not something she wanted to do forever however it did at least make her hoard look bigger.

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Imogene felt a little strange, just sitting there watching the other student get situated with her laptop, so they continued to rearrange their books. They needed to anyhow, now that they didn’t have the whole table to spread out on. Some of the books weren’t strictly necessary at this moment, so they closed them. Some they stacked carefully, and a few others they slipped back into their bag. They gathered up all of the pens and highlighters that had spilled across the table, putting them back into their pencil pouch. There, that was a much better table to share with a fellow student.

“That would be a sight to see.” Imogene agreed. They’d never seen a tiny dragon before. “I didn’t know that dragons could change the size of their shift. I thought that they were like any other shifter, and whatever size you are is what you are.” It would make sense if dragons hadn’t shared that information with the vampires, historically, but even in the halls of Katmere Academy they’d never seen a dragon that wasn’t the size you’d imagine when you pictured a dragon.

Rosie shrugged a little bit

“I guess it’s not as widely known then? I mean personally would you go around bragging that you could be the size of a walnut when your reputation is this giant fire breathing lizard drowned in gold and jewels?” Rosie asked them raising a brow it had to have been a matter of pride, Rosie was sure that she couldn’t be the only one especially since her brothers picked on her a little.

“Hmm I guess you’re right. Maybe they’ll figure out cocoa art someday.” Rosie said thoughtfully as she sat back in her chair a little and thought

“Maybe I’ll get cocoa in a little bit, Oooo and maybe marshmallows if they have them.” She said perking up a bit at the idea of marshmallows of course she was picturing cute little heart ones and wondered if that was a thing as well, this she didn’t voice though not wanting to risk another disappointment for now she could dream.

“So....what do you study?” Rosie asked after a few moments of what she perceived as awkward silence

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“Do you have any idea what he just said?” Rosie asked poking the person next to her gently with their pen, she’d gotten distracted in the lecture by the lecturers necklace, even from here she could see that the gold was fake and the gemstone, while beautiful was definitely man made sapphire. Rosie herself had always thought that Sapphires went better with silver anyway and- well she was doing it again spacing out as she shook the thoughts from her head

“I’m sorry can you repeat that? or could I copy your notes after class? I’ll buy you coffee as a thank you.” 

          Everyone in this country spoke way too quickly and she was still trying to get used to the different accents. Some of these people spoke so slowly that by the time they were finished, she was bored. And then there were some that spoke with such a thick accent that she couldn’t understand what they were saying at all. Half the time she was asking people for notes herself. Today probably would be no different, when the professor was finished with class, she’d just have to go up and ask them. Alastríona furrowed her brow as he just kept talking. 

“Well if you’re interested in sharing the notes the coffee is still up for grabs,” Rosie said with a smile best way to make friends was coffee chats, at least that’s what she was discovering in a college setting.

“I’m Rosie,” She introduced herself softly she figured if she was already completely lost she may as well have a nice conversation that actually interested her

“Thanks,” She said with a sweet smile as she started up her computer, at the question she looked up at the other

“Dragons can shift their sizes in their dragon forms, wouldn’t that be a sight to have a tea cup sized dragon playing on a computer?” Rosie asked with a slight chuckle at he mental image of her, tiny dragon form, tail wrapped around her cup and trying to type on her keys while staring at a giant tv screen. 

Usually Rosie was sensitive about her dragon forms size, she couldn’t figure out how to grow and staying tiny was not something she wanted to do forever however it did at least make her hoard look bigger.

Rosie chose not to answer the part about her advice being wanted, she was only trying to be helpful as far as the kissing booth participation went after all. 

“No she doesn’t, mum runs a flower shop so she can get tons of them though I have dipped a few in wax to preserve them, mum does that for valentines day and stuff too sometimes. Says some sappy girls like wax roses with cheesy lines like ‘a wax rose, like our love, never dies’ which personally I think is corny.” Rosie said with a slight roll of her eyes and a smile 

“Oh come on, everyone likes cupcakes right? They’ve got this one that’s red velvet with a gooey fudge center.” Rosie said trying to tempt him because frankly if he didn’t just accept the peace offering she was going to hide one in his bag anyway.

xx

“Aaah,” Phineas said, nodding. Dipping the flowers in wax sounded like a nice way to save them. The only flowers Phineas had ever gotten was the wildflowers he and his sister would pick for their moms. He wasn’t exactly heartbroken about never having been given flowers, however. If someone was to give him flowers he’d rather a plant that he could, well, plant. Instead of something that was just going to wither and die. “It does sound a little corny, but we’ve all got things that we like that other people would probably say the same thing about.”

“I mean yeah, everyone likes cupcakes, but no one wants to kiss the guy they just saw devour a cupcake and who has crumbs all over his face. And I’m pretty sure that I won’t be able to just wait till later to eat a cupcake. And if I did manage to hold off, well, then my sister would be mad at me if I showed up for our plans and didn’t have one for her too.”

“What kind of cupcake do you like?” Rosie said she was already digging into her bag for her wallet not really caring

“ooo maybe some hot chocolate too? that sounds great right about now I wonder if they can do that cute latte art in hot chocolate, you think anyone has ever tried that because a cute little heart ontop of my hot cocoa sounds wonderful” Rosie said she wondered if she tipped well if she could get them to try. 

Thank you to the lovely Nare and Mina of @brazilianfcs​ for giving me these episodes. 

“No she doesn’t, mum runs a flower shop so she can get tons of them though I have dipped a few in wax to preserve them, mum does that for valentines day and stuff too sometimes. Says some sappy girls like wax roses with cheesy lines like ‘a wax rose, like our love, never dies’ which personally I think is corny.” Rosie said with a slight roll of her eyes and a smile 

“Oh come on, everyone likes cupcakes right? They’ve got this one that’s red velvet with a gooey fudge center.” Rosie said trying to tempt him because frankly if he didn’t just accept the peace offering she was going to hide one in his bag anyway.