FLOWER ARRANGEMENT

[bedtime]

Characters: EVERY STUDENT
Format: Action/prose, whichever you want!!
This log is: open
Location: Fortitude school
Summary: FLOWER ARRANGEMENT CLASS
Warnings: oichi is creepy

Oichi arranges the flowers. It is a very simple arrangement-- one red spiderlily standing tall on its stem, and long stalks of some miscellaneous plant alongside it. It's all in a small black vase.

"So like this... yes... did you know? Listen, listen." She turns to face the class. She has some grasp on what she's supposed to be doing here, but does it with her own incoherent flair. Students have been set up with various flowers and containers; flowers sit on a central table, and containers line the walls.

The room is silent. "Did you know? That these flowers, these pretty red blooms, pave the road to hell." She laughs, hiding her mouth with her hands. And then she gestures to everyone in the room, spinning around and rushing limply behind her desk. "Your turn, your turn... Ichi will look at what you put together, so impress Ichi, ok...? Don't disappoint her... remember to be simple yet strong... beautiful like a death poem, ok?"

Comments

[tenwholeryou]

"That's why I chose it." Yep. Of course. Kotarou is already biting back a retort for the 'ugly' comment, both because he has to admit she's right, and because he's still damn nervous around her. She's the first person he's met who gets more unpredictable if blustered at. "So what goes with it? Those things?" He points at random.

[bedtime]

"No, no... too many and too much... simplicity, ok? Like a rock garden, or the shining blade of a sword..." She slowly and meticulously picks out the leaves and small flowers until there is a wet heap on his desk. She does it for him, adding a few smooth rocks and popping the head of the flower off of the stem. She lays it to float in the water. "Like that, ok...? Do you see, little Kota...? Just a few... not many..."

[tenwholeryou]

"A sword? Flowers are like swords?" With this gem of wisdom firmly planted, he watches her arrange everything with a much more appropriate level of focus. Okay, simplicity. There were rock gardens in the temple. He can just copy those.

"Wait there! I'll do it again." And he runs back to the other tables to fetch a new dish and some supplies.

[bedtime]

She waits there as she is told, looking about the room carefully.