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Lilly in a bar.
something something orange blossom
probably rain too.

[ooc: if the psuedo-haiku isn't scaring you away, ping da emmy gee before tagging, as this is semi-plotty.]

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She brightens visibly at this, beaming at Lilly.

"Thee are? It's the end of this moon--month," she corrects herself. "The thirtieth, he said."

"Yeah, but he might be expecting something then," Lilly says, lowering her voice and looking around. "So the surprise is happening earlier."

"Ever been to Vegas, Susan?"

She shakes her head.

"I've not, nay-- I've been to no city other than for Nymphadora's party, but I've heard of Vegas, at least."

"That's where we're kidnapping him too!" Lilly says gleefully.

"I think he's going to love it or kill me or both."

Susan giggles, putting both hands over her mouth to hide it.

"Let's hope for the first, then."

"Well, yeah, but if not I have a back-up plan," Lilly announces proudly. "Get him so drunk he doesn't remember that it's me who planned it."

Grinning, she reaches over and plucks a piece of straw out of Susan's hair.

"So, what're the odds I can tear you away from the stables long enough to come along?"

One hand goes to the ever-present jade rose pendant as she says, "Oh, I'd think it likely, say true."

Susan looks ruefully at the straw and adds, "I've -- I should have braided my hair again before working more on those. It keeps getting tangled."

Lilly tilts her head.

"Working on what, exactly?"

"Oh, I think I have one--" She reaches into a pocket of her shirt and pulls out a straw-weaving.

"These-- there are other shapes, too, and it's part of the bride-gifts I'm making, do'ee ken?"

Lilly looks closely at it, smiling.

"Susan, that's beautiful. You're going to have such a pretty wedding."

~~Especially if Koosh is in ruffles.~~

"I hope so," she says, smiling back, "but it's enough to have those close with us, and to have him, as well."

Beat.

"Which reminds me." Susan's giving Lilly an all-too-innocent glance, now. "There were something I wanted to ask..."

Lilly arches an eyebrow, suspicious. She knows about all-too-innocent glances, say true.

"Oh? What is it?"

"Would'ee stand with me, on the day?"

It's a simple question, mayhap, but Susan's nearly holding her breath.

Lilly blinks, surprised, and then starts to smile.

"Really? You'd... you'd want me to stand with you?"

The smile's brighter and warmer now.

"Oh, Susan. I'd be totally honored."

Susan beams and hugs her tightly.

"I'm so glad. Thankee-sai, Lilly." A beat, and a mischievous giggle.

"Alain's to stand with 'Bert, I wot."

Lilly smirks.

"Oh, is he? Well, he's one of Bert's best friends, so I don't see what's so funny about that, really."

"Mayhap naught." Still innocently, but then Susan leaves it alone, looking carefully at her friend.

"Now, sai, do'ee tell me why ye look so tired, hmm?"

"Oh, I just stayed up too late," Lilly says casually.

"It happens, you ken? It's one of the many reasons I am so grateful for coffee."

She's done that herself, more than once--especially here-- and Susan nods.

"I kennit, Lilly."

A careful look. "But all's well-- ye weren't awake troubled, were thee?"

It says a lot about Susan's own late nights, some of them, that she'd think ot ask it, mayhap.

Lilly looks down at her coffee cup. She doesn't want to lie to Susan, but there are things she doesn't want to bring up to someone who just lost her first love again, nearly lost her fiance, and is trying to get past that to have a happy wedding.

"Not really. I'm just kinda... thinking of Neptune too much, I guess."

It's the truth, just not all of it.

Mayhap strangely, her first thought is not of Mejis.

(the peace of the clearing)

Susan shakes her head as if to clear it, then nods.

(the wind soughing through the grass on the Drop and the sunlight off the sea in the distance)

"Oh, Lilly." A gentle hand, on hers. "I kennit, say true."

Lilly looks up, smiling as she squeezes Susan's hand.

"It'll pass, though. Nothing to worry about. Now, what I have to wear at your wedding? That's something that needs some serious discussion."

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