Inbox: Abraxas

[philancer]

INBOX text / action / horizon Roses are red, violets are blue,
and right now it seems I'm missing you.
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[philancer]

[ As he’d very insistently dragged her along as his +1 that night, despite all her protests to the contrary, he doesn’t leave her a note in return. But as each one she’d left him had brought a smile to her lips, later that week, she’ll find a single pink rose in perfect bloom left on her pillow beside a rose-scented candle wrapped in a ribbon.

Wrapped around the rose’s stem is a narrow strip of paper, since he doesn’t quite have her talent for paper art. But he had played around with some words and leaves them for her in a carefully penned hand.

The surest escape from the pit of despair
Is to cradle a person and tell them you care
So drop your defenses
And heighten your senses
So the next breath you take will be one that you share.

A few days later, it’s a small confectioner’s box of cupcakes with pink icing. There’s a little doodle of a fox with a rose in his mouth and a bow wrapped around one ear on the lid of the box, with the simple message of:

Sweets for my sweet.

And just before the weekend, when she arrives home, it’s to find the tub filled with steaming water and softly scented suds, the room lit aglow with soft candlelight and a thick, plush towel and robe waiting for her. This time, there’s a little plush fox seated on a stool with a note cupped in it’s paws and a bottle of wine and a single glass waiting beside it, with only the words:

You deserve a little pampering. Sorry there’s no mud. ]

[theidlemaiden]

[ When she had embarked on this quest to keep his spirits up, Hilda hadn't expected small gifts in return. But finding the rose, the candle, and the box of sweets bring a fond smile to her face every time and is so Sylvain of him to do. By the time she stumbles upon the drawn bath and the stuffed fox, her heart swells in an unexpected way. Despite the accompanying note being short and sweet, she reads it several times over with pink cheeks and soft eyes and the fox plushie held close to her. After a moment she turns on her heel to go in search of another glass and Sylvain in the hopes that he might join her in the tub.

From that point on the fox plushie becomes a bit of a messenger so to speak, accompanying her notes wherever and whenever it becomes appropriate. The day that business takes her away to Aquila overnight, he'll find the fox with an accompanying nightcap that seems handmade seated on his pillow with the note stuck to his belly:

You've been working hard. Get to bed early tonight!

Before he sets out for the start of his day, he'll find a note in the shape of a bunny and a bottle sun cream on top his bathroom sink that reads:

Just because it's winter doesn't mean the sun can't burn you! Don't forget to apply some of this to your face.

A little illustration of a fox with sun cream on its nose and some sunglasses also accompanies the note.

Another day, he'll find the fox perched in the kitchen by his teas, holding a brand new tin. The accompanying note reads:

Straight from the Solvunn tea festival to kickstart your day.

Another bunny note stuck to the tin has instructions for the tea preparation but at the very end Hilda has added:

Or best served however you like. I've never had a cup of tea better than yours. They taste like care and love. They taste like magic.

The morning after that he'll find four rabbit-shaped notes stuck to the bathroom mirror. Drawn on them are several illustrations of a little rabbit with a pink bow between its ears and a fox in a meadow. One image shows the bunny rolled onto its back laughing at the fox as it pulls a silly face, tongue out playfully as its tail wags. Another scene shows the fox pouting as it dons a silly hat. The bunny is doubled over giggling. The last scene is of the fox trying to catch a goose while the little bunny cheers him on, gleefully laughing. ]

I love the way you make me laugh at you.