It was kinda embarrassing… but not as bad as it could be, Hana figured. At least she was just picking flowers. Nice young ladies did that. Proper ones. Yeah– at least it wasn’t like that jerk Kiyoshi. At least this was a girl and she didn’t catch her doing something… unmentionable.
“I didn’t lose anything,” Hana said, almost defensively. “I was picking flowers.” She stood up off her hands and knees to show off the crumpled bouquet in her left hand. “I think I picked all the good ones, so you’ll have to go somewhere else if you want to look for flowers too.” The ones in her hand had melded together a bit and turned her skin green. Not good for making tea with them, and besides, there weren’t any dandelions. Hana wondered if Tancho was under the impression that dandelions were weeds. She supposed they were, by technicality. But they certainly did not possess the ugliness a word such as “weeds” seemed to necessitate.
Hana supposed it was not entirely true that she hadn’t lost anything. She’d lost several things. Her first kiss. Her first time switching panties with a boy… wait, that wasn’t a first that people longed for. Just a weird happening. But still, he’d taken that too. Did it count as losing it if someone took it by force?
“But, hey,” she went on, straightening out the flowers so they weren’t stuck to her sweaty palm, “can you tell me the difference between losing something, and having something stolen from you?”
“Is this your wont?” Saber’s reply was quick as it cut through the still air. Frowning slightly, her blue pools sparkled slightly as she turned slightly to a side. “To ask strangers such strange questions of philosophy?”
“Though if you truly wish to know my opinion on the subject, to have lost something does not imply another person’s involvement.” Merely voicing her thoughts was certainly the least she could do when such a question had been presented to her. “Still, I was wondering if this question was not propitiated by an event.”
“Would you then allow a question of mine? I would like to know what has caused you such a dilemma. Have you lost something or was an item of yours stolen?”
Perhaps if she tried, she could help out this stranger in reinstating their lost possessions.
“If you tell me, I shall do my best to help it come back to you.”
