Fifth Link

[colorbymemory]

Characters: Namine and all visitors to the tea shop
Content: Christmas at the tea shop--Namine has decorated and made cookies.
Location: Traverse Town, Fourth District, Tea shop
Time of Day: Any time during the shop’s opening hours on Christmas Day.
Warnings: High potential for fluff and adorbs?

In the aftermath of the fight with the giant Nightmare, Namine stayed close to home. Given all that had happened, remaining quietly there for a while seemed best. It wasn’t a hardship, either, with so much to do to prepare for Christmas.

First, the shop needed to be decorated. While she wasn’t an expert in Christmas decorations or decorating in general, she managed to make plenty of paper snowflakes to hang from the ceiling, and small snow people to set on the tables. She’d used stencils to help make all the letters for “Merry Christmas” out of colored paper and tape them to the wall behind the counter so they spelled out the greeting properly. While she hadn’t made the small Christmas tree in the corner (and the one upstairs in the apartment), she had made all the ornaments. Finally, she’d taken a can of a white spray to the edges of the windows. It was supposed to give the effect of frost or snow, but she wasn’t quite convinced. Oh, well. One made do with what one had.

Then there were Christmas presents. She’d settled for making cookies for everyone instead of buying things; she wasn’t quite sure of what the others would like as gifts. So she got out the cookie cutters and made sugar cookies in the shapes of trees, Santas, angels, and stars. Once that was done, she made gingerbread men, enough for everyone to have one. Once they were packaged up, instead of writing names on the tags, she drew a picture of the recipient.

Fortunately, she had everything done by Christmas Day when she helped open the shop, presents stacked behind the counter. If some of the others didn’t stop by, she’d have to work out another delivery method.

[OOC: All characters are welcome to come get their Christmas cookies from Namine. Feel free to treat this party style--drop in on conversations/start a new one with someone who’s already arrived.]

Comments

[go_dream]

If Tidus was going to be in Traverse Town, he figured he should make some effort to explore the place, which is how he found himself standing outside the tea shop. He never drank much tea, but curiosity had him entering the shop and pausing to look at all the decorations.

"Special occasion? Oh!" He grinned, recognizing Namine. "It's you."

[shadearchivist]

Ienzo had puttered around; there was punch for adults and punch for not-adults, as well as tea and cocoa. It would be good to celebrate with everyone; he hadn't been sure that Santa Claus could even find this place, with its odd location in the realm of sleep.

He settled in next to the drinks; it would be nicer if there were snow outside, but it felt enough like Christmas indoors.

[paopucharm]

Of course Kairi would show, at some point during the day. She'd only been in the world for a short time, but she's carrying a present with her as she opened the door to the shop, cheerful.

"Naminé? Are you here?"

[dork_of_keys]

Sora had stopped by the tea shop expressly because he was running visiting everyone for Christmas and it occurred to him that a few people might be hanging around the tea shop or show up there at some point. He had gifts for anyone whose likes and dislikes he knew and little pouches of munny with cards for everyone else (yay for magically deep pockets). Of course, he'd scrambled a little on last minute gifts for new arrivals, especially when Kairi had showed up. Most of these had also ended up being a nice little card and munny.

He could also agree to the need to just spend some time recovering after that battle not just for the battle itself, which would have been exhausting normally, but also for the magical explosion that ended it. Thankfully, everyone had gotten through it in one piece, if a little battered.

As much as he kind of wanted to ask Riku what he knew, if anything, about the odd form the Nightmare had taken, Sora figured now wasn't a good time. It was Christmas and no one really wanted to think of that battle at the moment. Personally, Sora just wanted to give everyone the gifts he'd gotten them and hang out for a while.

He wasn't sure if he should be surprised or not that the place was decked out for the holiday. Maybe it didn't matter though. It was nice that it was. Now where was...

"Namine?"