Tea in the Gardens and Antechambers

[kaolinandbone]

As the many multiversal guests are gated in, singly or in groups, a crowd slowly begins to form in the entry hall. Lioncourt looks up from her meditation break and claps her hands twice: in moments, a dozen automaton servants file out from the adjoining rooms, hands of gleaming white porcelain holding equally elegant china tea-sets. A pair of the automatons open the doors at the far end of the hall, revealing a tiered rose garden, the stone benches dotted here and there ringing a large central clearing.

"Tea is served, either here or in the gardens: I would appreciate it, however, if some of my guests might proceed onward so as to reduce crowding."

Comments

Re: Esthfora

[kaolinandbone]

Lioncourt doesn't remember gating in this particular guest, but then again, she didn't really need to. If she trusts Esthfora with her mind, she trusts her with her guests by association.

"Thank you for coming; I was worried that you might not turn up." She smiles softly as Esthfora examines one of her roses. "They're specially cultivated: no other roses anywhere are like them. They're... very mine."

Re: Esthfora

[esthfora]

"They're nice!" she says. "I like them. This is a nice party."

Re: Esthfora

[kaolinandbone]

"Thank you! I hope you're enjoying the tea and company as well." Lioncourt smiles sunnily.

Re: Esthfora

[esthfora]

"There's happy minds here. It's good." She pets the flower. "Your flowers are very soft."

Re: Esthfora

[kaolinandbone]

Lioncourt covers a giggle. "Why, thank you. I worked quite hard to make this particular cultivar thornless." She carefully tilts a flower on one of the other nearby bushes to show the usual thorns. "Normally, these aren't nearly so... Pettable."

Re: Esthfora

[esthfora]

Esthfora giggles. "That's nice of you!"

Re: Esthfora

[kaolinandbone]

Lioncourt shrugs. "Well, I had quite a lot to learn. This is my experimental garden, you see: It's where I taught myself genetics, how to see it and how to manipulate it."

Re: Esthfora

[esthfora]

"Soft flowers is a good way to do that," she asserts.

Re: Esthfora

[kaolinandbone]

"It's certainly much better than some other ways." Lioncourt nods in agreement.

Re: Esthfora

[esthfora]

Pet pet pet. The flowers are so soft.

Re: Esthfora

[kaolinandbone]

Lioncourt appears to have exhausted her conversational avenues. She leaves the rainbow goddess to pet her flowers some more, with a cordial wave good-bye so as not to disturb.