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[lumberlady]

[Lunatia's resident centaur lady is back on screen, and this time she's sharing the spotlight with... a table full of fresh vegetables? Still a bit dirty, fresh from the soil, good ol' vegetables... That Konoha bows over to start out.]

Hello, everyone! My name is Konoha... I'm a jinba, or a "centaur" if you want... I'm from Echigo in Japan, but lots of people say I'm from the past...

[She's just going to do the same introduction every time, counting off details on her fingers to make sure she gets all the good points... there's too many people on this thing and she doesn't check it enough to keep track... oops. Anyway-]

I wanted to ask people some questions about food! My husband and I have set up a little farmstead, but the crops are growing, um, way faster than they really ought to be... [we're just going to speed past the blush] and it's not like we actually have to work for money here, so I was thinking of not just taking the crops to market but... serving meals at the house? Or sending them to people elsewhere in the city? I don't know, but I've met a lot of people here who said they just eat food from the stores, and I know those are really convenient, but it can't be better than a home cooked meal, can it?


[Look at this big turnip! Isn't it healthy looking?! Don't you just want to eat it?? Konoha smiles, making the root vegetable dance around the screen.]

So... can I ask you some questions about what sort of food you like? Or what kind of things you miss from your home? Maybe what they make in your country with vegetables? If you give me some of your time, I'll send you some fresh ones as a "thank you"-

Promise!

[One last bow... and she and the turnip sign off.]

Comments

[insecution]

Great! You can keep him for as long as you’d like.

[ Had she not cared for what it might to do them in the long-term, she’d have them keep Giyuu forever. Foisting him off on such a wonderful couple seems a bit mean, though—even for her.

That aside, he’s in no position to be working for them regardless. Shinobu can tell as much from a simple little cough. Anybody else might reason it as Giyuu clearing his throat or choking on a wad of food he didn’t chew properly, but she knows better. His breathing’s been off for a while now. Him struggling to deaden the noise of each in- and exhale only serves to further confirm her suspicions; he’s still not well and he’s gone too long without bed rest. He’s likely only holding on through sheer force of will, the stubborn idiot that he is.

If he won’t do what’s best for him, Shinobu will get him to do it herself. She rises from her seat at the table, but not without first dipping her head towards their gracious host. ]

Thank you for the food, Konoha-san. I’ll have to make sure he’s fit to work before he comes by to trouble you again.

[ Giyuu gets a look in return that tells him not to challenge her. ]

Shall we head back?

[lumberlady]

[Konoha doesn't know much about healing. Sure, she knows that you should get the poison out of viper bites, splint broken bones, and try to keep cuts clean... But she certainly doesn't know the difference between blood-in-the-lungs coughing and I've-been-stuffing-my-face-this-whole-time coughs. What she does have is a keen nose, and there's a moment when her brows turn down in confusion, the scent of iron she associates with blood spiking in the corner of her senses, but-]

Oh-

[But then Shinobu is standing, and Konoha bows back automatically, her mind more than sufficiently distracted and a few seconds behind her body. Already? But then again, she'd probably invited them so suddenly they likely had other things to be doing, so-]

Of course! Here, at least let me pack some things for you-

[With a scrape of hooves on the floor she gets back to her feet, using the apron hanging in front of her equine lower chest to protect her hands as she takes the hot pot off the hearth hook and trots into the kitchen for a few minutes...

Before she's back and ready to see them out, a few plastic containers (plastic was so amazing?) bundled up in a furoshiki that she hands to Giyuu with a smile. He's bigger, okay, and she might have put more than just the hot pot leftovers in there. There might also be some rice balls, pickles, and boiled meat and potatoes stuffed in there, too.

She likes it when people can appreciate home cooking, okay?]

Come back any time, alright? Even just to talk.

[And alright, maybe that was a strange thing to say in front of Giyuu more than Shinobu, but. She couldn't help but be curious about this Japan that they knew.

Next time.]