Hotaru Sakura wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:06 pm
"Hai, certainly, the summer heat makes certain activities unbearable, or at least unpleasant." She very slowly plucked...something in her chopsticks, and placed it in her mouth.
Success!!
"Besides Oshidama, what other hobbies does Bayushi-sama prefer? I heard poetry is one such topic, or maybe I was misinformed?"
"Hai, the city slows down a fair bit during the summer, even with the cooler nights." Mineichi replied, deftly picking yet another crisp vegetable with his chopsticks, wood clicking softly against the glazed ceramic. "Poetry would be one such topic hai, though one his hardly an artisan. Merely something I do to distract myself. I am sure everyone has something like that."
Yoritomo Seika wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 2:28 am
"Oh, yeah, balance of body and mind and all that." Normally Seika would punctuate a statement like this with a casual wave of her hand, but this time she catches herself and arrests the movement halfway--not because the gesture is too informal (hah) or would be wasted in the dark, but because she doesn't have a great sense of Sakura's position and exactly how far apart the two of them are, and accidentally stabbing one's oshidama partner with chopsticks would be a bad look.
"Poetry, really?" Sakura wouldn't see Seika's eyebrows arch at this revelation. "That's a gentlemanly hobby."
"Yes, really. One is classically trained, in more ways than one." Mineichi replied, chomping down on the fried eggplant, savoring the surprisingly complex flavors afforded by the rich, thick sauce. "Though still, one cannot claim to be a Doji or anything like that." he added, somehow making it sound as if Doji was something you didn't want to be. "I prefer the short form, verses that make you see a moment caught in words."
