dreamcrystals | [open] invitation of windblume!

Sender: Venti
To: Everyone!
Subject: A rose by any other name is still a rose!

Hello there! It appears that this world is entering its Spring Solstice and with such a season brings new life and new flowers to everything the sun touches! I'd like to share with you a tradition during this time of year from my homeland, the beautiful and free city of Mondstadt. And that is the Windblume festival.

During this time of year, many will offer flowers in tribute to the god of freedom! Yet, what is more important is the tradition of gifting flowers to those you love and hold dear. The choice of flowers can say a lot about a person's feelings! When gifting precious flowers to those you love and adore the carefully picked flower should be one that means something to you and that precious relationship.

While this time of year doesn't necessarily have to mean these gestures are romantic there is another tradition of sending your most adored one a love poem. A perfect time to be confessing your heart's song to the one who holds your heart! Ehe, isn't that lovely?

I, as a travelling bard, have spent many years seeing the Windblume season! And with it, I have written hundreds of poems and know exactly how to weave love's verse. I would like to offer my assistance in helping you find the words to write your own love letter or poem to the one you hold dear or wish to confess to! Do tell me all about the one you hold in your heart and allow me to help you craft the words to express your heart's feelings.

Please, it would be my pleasure!

[Spill the tea on your love lives and in return Venti will help you confess in a love letter! Come on, get spilling! He loves the gossip!]

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[A kind offer to be sure, but there's something about the insistence that leaves Hythlodaeus to wonder if the desire to help is entirely unselfish.

It sounds like something he might do himself, actually.]

What a lovely tradition (if you'll pardon the pun).

Alas, tempted as I am to offer the individual I have in mind a poem, I must wonder if flowers would be preferred. I don't suppose you have any suggestions for the latter?

[Perhaps a little mixture of both! Ehe! ~~he does love that hot gossip~~]

Consider yourself pardoned although I appreciate all puns big or small!

It's a shame that your receiver might like the flowers better, perhaps that's all the more reason to gift one?

Nonetheless! A simple collection of red roses for a lover is always well thought. But what is your individual like?

[Besides not liking poetry!]

Grim-faced, no-nonsense, overly-devoted to duty, hardly ever honest with his feelings, and loyal to a fault.

[There's a pause before more writing appears, courtesy of Hythlodaeus taking a moment to laugh to himself.

Curious that roses should be a symbol of love where you're from as well. I wonder how ubiquitous it is across worlds.

Ehe, that sounds positively annoying and charming at the same time.

[Please, do tell him more.]

Roses do tend to hold a certain air about them. Beautiful and sweet. Yet sharp and easy to knick you wrong if you touch a thorn. Much like love, ehe!

Oh, I can't say I find it annoying. Simply a matter of translating his complaints into their true meaning. ...Or that's the solution I've stumbled upon over my many years of knowing him anyway.

My, you really are quite the poet! Though I suppose it would be difficult to be a bard if one wasn't skilled in the art of verse.

And I must admit, you've piqued my curiosity. You sound as though you've had your own experiences with the emotion. Any that you'd be willing to share?

[Venti giggles at the returned messages. He's a little charmed.]

Oh, I've written my own stories and poems here and there! Better shared over a cup of wine or through a bittersweet song. Don't mind me!

[But not charmed enough that he wants to talk about his own love stories, yet!]

I'm much more interested in hearing about your complaining companion. Are you going to send him flowers, after all?

[open] invitation of windblume!

Sender: Hythlodaeus

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