Fandom Island and Town

Shiemi held off as many weird animals as she could and only when everything seemed to calm down did she dare leave her precious garden.

Or what remained of it.

She was at the Flower Shop now, though, Octavian-san! The store was closed, but if you needed something you could knock? She was buzzing around the store checking for damage and seeing what stock they had to replace and listing some things she thought that could be donated to help the town.

And maybe also a list of items to get the school garden back again.

When was the next supply delivery, again?

[Can be open, sure!]

Shiemi opened the store and did her usual cleaning and greeting of the plants in the shop. She had Nii-chan help her move the displays around. No shipments were due until later in the day, so when her chores were done, Shiemi brewed some tea and began looking over the papers she'd brought with her while waiting for customers.

"Who knew getting a phone could be so complicated," she muttered as she set about comparing plans and phone models and coverage areas. "Where is Borostyria and why would this plan have coverage there but not in Canada?"

Shiemi finally found a nice place with enough open space that she didn't have to worry and set her things down. She began spreading a blanket. "I don't want to, Nee-chan. But I am going to have to let you go while I do this." She knelt and reached for her bag, pulling out the sheets of paper she'd been working on at the flower shop earlier.

"Nee?" Her familiar jumped from the top of her head to the ground to help. "NeEE."

"I'm worried, too. But I don't know if I have enough strength to hold you and summon anyone else." She was planning on only calling smaller golem-type demons but it was still dangerous. Demons were dangerous. It was hard enough dealing with demons for normal people, but a Tamer had to not only be stronger than the demon he or she called, but to have no fear and not lack confidence.

Sheimi shook her head and sent Nee-chan to gather rocks while she looked through the circles she had copied.

If the Tamer wavered at all, the demon could take over the Tamer or attack them... or run away into the world and cause troubles. Shiemi had actually seen this happen; Kamiki-san's familiars had turned against her and refused to serve her.

"That's if I can summon anything at all," She reminded herself as she set out one of the larger, simpler circles. Nee-chan helping now to weight it down with the rocks he'd found. She thanked him and then pulled a small piece of paper from her coat pocket and, with great reluctance, ripped it in half. Nee-chan disappeared in a puff of smoke. She hated doing that; even though she knew she could call him back, it still hurt.

"Now." She sat back, taking a deep breath, and reached for her book bag again. She could do this! "What was the summoning for Snowman?"



[open! She won't ACTUALLY summon anything today!]

Shiemi was at work. And had been since early this morning. She had never realized Valentines Day was so much WORK. There were still stacks of orders to get out, lots more to build, and a truckload of flowers for EASTER had just arrived and needed tending to, preferably not where near the shamrocks that were due in a few hours.

In addition, the phone was ringing off the hook. Apparently they were the only florist who could deliver to multiple universes and planets? Who knew: "Yes mam, I understand, but... No ma'am, I am not refusing to serve you. I would never refuse someone flowers."

One alumni in particular had in fact been taking up a lot of her time today with multiple calls and last minute orders.

"But... No ma'am, I understand you're having a special guest. It's just that those flowers together in an arrangement like that, they can act as a curse and... Yes they are very pretty flowers, but it's what they... No ma'am we definitely do have them on hand. and in those colours. No I don't know who you are. Ah. ok. That's a very nice list of names!" Shiemi totally had no idea who the woman was. "Well, what if ma'am came into the store to see the arrangement first? I could show you what I... Oh. An uncharted desert island, I see." Shiemi sighed and took up her pencil again and began marking the order. It almost felt like she was casting a spell already. "Then this fourth one will be for delivery?"

It was going to be a late night. The countdown to Valentines Day said:



And a huge handmade potato-stamp sign on the window said:



Shiemi was probably going to be at the store all night trying to get orders ready, so... yeah. Flowers.

Shiemi was still getting tingles when she went into the fresh-cut flowers cooler, so she made another note for Octavian-san. She doublechecked the rest of the wards, refreshed the soil in three shelves of live plants and dusted the fake ones.

A few more tasks and she was back at the counter reading. The Feng Shui book was still in the pile, but she decided to start on the swordsmanship one... Especially since the Gardening books were still slightly puffy.



The door had a "Countdown to Valentines Day" calendar on it and the Flower shop is open!

Flowers and plants. Shiemi couldn't do wrong with flowers and plants, right? Right. So she was determined to forget all the thing that had gone wrong recently and spend a wonderful day with her friends, the flowers and plants.

The shop was open and Shiemi was somewhere in the shop taking inventory and preparing a list of things to suggest Octavian-san should order.

"EH?! Is that...?! Nii-chaaaaan! Come over to the peony seedlings! Quickly! We have blight spores! We have to quarantine these poor little ones and check everyone else!"


[Flower shop is open!]

Shiemi had missed much of what had gone on, but what little she had been here for... well.

Her paycheck back in the till, she had a whole bunch of flowers and plants set up on a table outside, and now she and Nii-chan were going to sit and pass them out to people for free.

Though she wished someone would explain why the large sunflowers were going so fast...


[OPEN FLOWER SHOP! Come and get a free flower.]

Shiemi read over her list again. The plants and obvious plant supplies she could get from her new job at the flower shop - or at least she could try. Apparently this shop wasn't as extensive as the one she shopped back home. Though that was likely, she thought with a soft smile, because they had become used to her grandmother's odd and detailed requests before Shiemi was even born.

The rest... well, to Shiemi they were obviously gardening supplies, but she wasn't sure where on Fandom to try to find manure, let alone frost cloths, black plastic, gravel, linseed oil, cleaning rags, a proper hoe and hopefully a scythe... should she fetch her hori-hori from home or try to find a new one here?

She also couldn't find a garden record book for the dorm garden, so she wanted one of those, and the small shed needed repairs before winter started. She wanted to clean up the compost pile, so she needed supplies for that... She sighed happily, despite the length of the list of things she needed to do. It was nice to be thinking about gardening instead of her Exorcist lessons. She was good at gardening.

She was going to sit here a while and enjoy the weather a little more, then go look at stores again.

She totally should have brought a thermos of tea.


[open!]

Yesterday, Shiemi had stayed in the strange room she'd woken in. But today there was something funny-looking growing on one of the plants, so Shiemi had decided to take it to her gramma to figure out what it was. Because Shiemi's gramma knew everything about flowers and plants and she'd surely be able to make it better if it was sick!

But this wasn't True Cross, and while Shiemi wasn't really very scared, she didn't remember how she got here or where home was. And she'd been carrying the plant for a long time now and it was awfully heav... "Oooh!" Shiemi ran quickly to a small patch of wildflowers, setting down her plant to get a closer look. "Pretty! Ah!" She espied more a few feet away and rushed over, reaching for a stick to poke at the small patch of colour. "Those are yarrow, right? Ano... what are they good for, again?" She looked up, thinking... and saw a small patch of purple in the distance. "Oooooooh!"

And so on.

Which is why there is a lonely potted plant sitting in the middle of... somewhere and a tiny blonde girl in a rather untidy kimono running around poking at plants and flowers.


[open!]