[video | un: kurama]

[sinningtree]

It would seem that many of us are accustomed to certain holidays during this time of year. While I am not fully aware what's been done here in the past, it has come to my attention that several Chosen are interested in recognizing these holidays in some form or another now.

I would like to offer my assistance to those who might benefit. More specifically, should anyone be putting together a gathering for the winter festivities, I can certainly save some time and energy with decorations of the plant variety. Hanging garlands, putting up wreaths or Christmas trees where appropriate. Things of that nature.

[Yes, even mistletoe. No, he's not offering that unless requested directly. Kurama will also not be offering things like food for party dishes, but if someone thinks of it and asks for some vegetables or something directly, he won't say no to that either.

A beat, before he adds:]

I could also provide the plants, given sufficient advance notice to acquire them.



[ooc: backdated to last week some time. please note, I'm traveling this week so replies may be slow through the weekend! If you have to move quickly with things, feel free to handwave any involvement after initial contact to streamline your own needs. Also happy to tag into whatever logs people have going once I've settled in, just let me know if you'd like me to.]

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un: shortstack

[jaganshi]

You're a flower monger now?

[sinningtree]

Kurama does not respond to Hiei's text message with more than an eye roll, and the fire demon is not going to see that through text. Which means he doesn't get an answer at all.

At least, not on the network. Later though, when the fox has returned to the house some time after doing other errands around town, only to find him there. It's becoming harder to discern whether Hiei is at the house simply looking for him or actually starting to accept it as also a space of his own.

Not that he's very worried about whichever it is, at the moment.

Kurama appears out of nowhere as he likes to do when the smaller demon's back is turned. Concealing his energy does still tend to be the default, even in Aldrip, after all.

“Getting quite comfortable with communicating on the network, I see.” Comfortable enough to be a brat for literally no reason, it would seem.

[jaganshi]

Look, he thought it was at least passably funny. Kurama insists on having any number of jobs in this place doing whatever the hell he's doing, adding on selling flowers is probably smart but also inescapable so far as Hiei and his ability to make something A Thing.

"Don't sneak up on me." Hiei says for possibly the two millionth time since he's come to know Kurama and the fox persists in covering up his demon energy. Here the fire apparition doesn't quite bother to fully suppress his demon energy, but he's careful enough that he isn't projecting too much for the more spiritually aware around them, if there are any.

He's procured a snack from somewhere, mouth still full as he finally turns to look at the redhead, casual as ever. He'll even offer him a meat stick as casually as ever.

"It's clunky to carry around and inefficient but.. entertaining from time to time."

[sinningtree]

Kurama is in no position to judge anyone else's attempt at humor, considering how he gets by amusing himself. Still, there's no sense in him selling flowers when there's a literal flower shop for that, he was just offering to help with decorations for the holiday. Not that he's going to bother explaining as much, for one: the fire apparition likely doesn't care.

Speaking of ways he amuses himself, the redhead smiles innocently when Hiei tells him off for sneaking up on him, but he doesn't respond, never seeming to take that complaint very seriously no matter how many times he hears it. Kurama reaches for the offered stick with the question, head tilting curiously, as if considering those words before speaking, sounding performatively doubtful.

“Is that what that was? Entertainment?”

The fox is just giving him shit at this point, how their relationship evolved to this constant bickering he does not understand, but when it's in no way serious like this it practically comes naturally. Like something familiar to fall back on when everything else on this world seems to constantly pull the rug out from under them.

As for how clunky the tablets are, they're certainly nowhere near the two-way pager he'd had back home or even the communication mirrors that Botan used. On the plus side it wasn't the size of a briefcase like Yusuke had, either. It could be more inconvenient, he supposes.

“They are rather large compared to what we're used to, but there are worse options, considering we have no choice if we wish to stay in touch at all.”

[jaganshi]

"Yes. I certainly don't need you all to have the ability to call me at any time you want." Or to call him back to their home in the woods for that matter. The fire demon looks properly annoyed at even the thought of everyone having access to call him at any point, much less the constant ability to text and attempt to get ahold of him.

How dare anyone want to know his whereabouts, right?

Of course the fire demon takes the opportunity to point up toward his forehead as Kurama talks about 'staying in touch' - no, he did not need the Jagan to keep in contact with any of them in their minds, but it made the point more efficiently.

"In case you've forgotten, we don't need tablets to communicate."

[sinningtree]

If he's being honest, the fox would assume Hiei has left the device behind or simply kept it off for most of the day. Finding him on the network at all - outside of their regularly scheduled (seemingly mandatory) dating app - always struck him as surprising. It is also why he set up the ability to contact everyone at once in private, they could easily choose to interact with those messages and no others, if they (read: Hiei) really wanted to.

Kurama's smile only widens as Hiei points to his own forehead, certain he knows exactly what the fire apparition is about to suggest even without the words that follow. “I have not, but in case you've forgotten, not everyone here can communicate in that way and some do find it rather off putting.”

They're surrounded by humans, Hiei. Humans with powers, yes, but not everyone is conveniently a telepath. Including some of their own.

[jaganshi]

As much as Hiei hated the little devices, and the fact that it meant anyone could reach out to him at any time (who were not the people he was most concerned about, here) - he did like the ability to stalk a little, here and there. One of his favorite pass-times when he had been kept in the human world was listening to the often foolish conversations of those around where he was napping for the day. Here, he can do that as well as see what is written in plain sight on the network as well.

Would be retain a lot of that information? No, not really. But he wasn't being anything other than nosey in this endeavor.

"That doesn't strike me as my problem." Except where it involves their own people, but even then, with the Jagan he can so conveniently communicate it makes the tablet basically redundant.