Phase Fifteen: Shot to the Heart

[emorangerpink]

1.
[Laura's assembled her squad of recruits - those she could invite, persuade, or cajole into volunteering to help out with her morale-boosting Valentine's Day plan. She's just carrying out her final inspection before unleashing them on the ship...]

All right! Everyone's ready? Your costumes are okay? You know what to do?

[Of course, she's not asking anyone to so anything she wouldn't herself! She's found a toga-like white minidress somewhere, and supplemented it with a halo, wings, and a toy bow with matching quiver of heart-tipped arrows. How good a Cupid costume has she - or even you, maybe - managed in your case?]

2. (mingle/open to all)
[And they're loose! A squad of Cupids are wandering the Chalice, picking up and delivering people's Valentine's gifts. Do you have one to send? Are you expecting one, or receiving one unexpectedly? Or do you just think the whole thing is ridiculous?]

OOC
[It's a Valentine's Day courier service! There's a meme to coordinate. Prompt #1 is for volunteers and people looking to laugh at volunteers. Prompt #2 is for people sending or receiving their Valentines as arranged on the meme. Have fun!]

Comments

[emorangerpink]

Happy Valentine's!

[Laura hands you a small, gift-wrapped box of a handful of chocolates, beaming. It seems this role agrees with her.]

From the kitchen crew.

[desiredstrength]

Hu-wha...?

[Stare.]

...What am I supposed to do with this?

[Apparently, someone's not familiar with this celebration at all.]

[emorangerpink]

Eat them! Or give them to someone else, or share them.

Is this your first Valentine's Day?

[desiredstrength]

Yeah, I was never a people person. Layered never had much room for celebrations.

...So, why the chocolate?

[emorangerpink]

It's a tradition! You give gifts to people you care about. Chocolate to friends, in some places. Flowers and things to loved ones, in others.

Where I come from it's mostly a romantic thing, but some of the kitchen crew were really enthusiastic about making chocolate.

[desiredstrength]

Hm...

[She thinks for a while, and looks down at that chocolate in her hands.]

...You put in this effort, to show that you care, is that right?

[emorangerpink]

That's the idea! I mean - I didn't actually make any of the chocolates myself... but that's what the event's about.

[desiredstrength]

That's all I needed to confirm.

[And she'll suddenly take your hand and put that chocolate right back there.]

...I can't accept this.

[emorangerpink]

Huh?

...Please, don't get the wrong idea! I'm not trying to ask you out or anything like that...

[desiredstrength]

Ask me out? Of course not; that would just be strange.

[With that, Naiza turns around, waving a hand as she walks off.]

I have my reasons. Do enjoy your chocolates and costumes, though.

[emorangerpink]

...

[Well, Laura's not going to follow her, it seems pretty clear she wouldn't want it... and she's not sure what she'd say, anyway.]

Ah... you too...