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[ JUST AFTER TRIPLE MOONS END: It took him asking a Lunatian co-worker in the Moon Knights to figure out how to keep a message from a few specific IDs: thus Shi Qingxuan, Xie Lian, and Hua Cheng aren't able to view this transmission.

His hand falls away from the camera and he smiles at it, sitting back and tucking a loose lank of hair behind his ear. His bangs are a long mess across his forehead and framing his face anyway; really, he could stand a haircut. ]

Hey, my name's Inuzuka Shino, and I'm asking for your help and guidance today.

[ He briefly bows to the camera from his seated position. Straightening up, his hair's all framing his face again, a mess. ]

I'm trying to set up a romantic date for two of my most important friends here, but I don't really know what's good outside of good food, so... Something that's not related to a lot of technology, that's nature appreciating, I think that'd be good? If anyone has suggestions on stuff like that, I'd be thankful to hear from you.

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Shino, do you still not own a brush... ?

[FIRST THINGS FIRST...]

[ He automatically reaches up and starts... finger combing... his hair. ]

I, uh—

[ He borrows one from Shi Qingxuan sometimes?! ]

After all that asking me about combs... !

I kind of... forgot?

[ Does he look embarrassed. He outright looks embarrassed! ]

A good matchmaker should fix their hair.

[Said as if she has just imparted a great wisdom!!!!]

... But what does my hair have to do with any of it?!

[ Now morphing into absolutely confused Shino??!?! ]

If you go on a romantic "date", you have to do your best to look presentable! So if Shino isn't looking presentable how can he advise people on what to do a romantic "date"?

[It's math!]

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[ Ordinarily, she'd return like for like in terms of replying, but she's moving about a bit at the moment and -- well, more oddly than that, she feels up to giving thought to this whole romantic notion.

Hm. ]

Why don't you combine good food and nature for a memorable evening? You could set up a good meal they could eat while flower viewing and let them take things from there. Perhaps they'd walk the park afterwards if you chose to stage it there.

[ He switches to match what comes in, taking it a little slower as a consequence. ]

Hmm, are there flowers blossoming right now that aren't along the highway to Amegahara? Also one of them kind of had flowers blossoming from their eye just... the other day, I'm not sure if flowers are going to be the most settling right now.

What else is there to... star viewing? Is that a thing?

There are many green spaces throughout the city with flowering trees, but if flowers have been held less than a positive note lately, it might not be the most settling with what you have in mind.

Star viewing is a thing, though. With or without a good meal behind it, it's an activity that can be considered very romantic. Some people will travel very far to acquire an unpolluted view and it generally gives the couple a degree of privacy certain other activities don't.

I wonder if there are any star showers in the forecast? That could be worth looking into.

Star showers... when a whole bunch of stars are streaking across the sky? That could be really neat. I think if you get outside the city the light from the city is distant enough you can really see the stars, but the safer areas too, hm. Along the beaches? Nothing is in the way of what you see there, and if you're not swimming, there can't be any seal or octopus incidents or anything.

Then that could be something like packing a picnic and blanket and warm things in a thermos. Miso and tea? Or warmed sake, too? I wonder if there's any kind of glowing in dark topping you could put on a desert...

... Is there anywhere not annoying sandy on a beach, though. Out in the hills? Anywhere where you can't see Level One is gonna be better for seeing the stars, right?

[ He's gotta get this right for them. Or at least, get them the best experience he can. ]

If no stars are falling, maybe I can make it look like some are. Are there anything like fireflies or lights that act like them here, you think? I remember more than one summer where I'd see those out in the meadows at dusk and early at night.

It seems early enough in the year here that the nights are still pleasantly cool, so a picnic, blanket, and warm things to eat and drink would probably be very pleasant. I've seen all sorts of creative things in the baking section of the local markets here, too. Something like a luminescent dessert topping shouldn't be a challenging find.

You want to get as far away from the light of the city as possible. A high hill in the right spot would work well. I'm sure such a place exists here. I can ask around if you'd like? I wouldn't mind having that knowledge on hand myself.

[ Especially if there's a high hill with a tall tree she can perch in and, oh, he's asked the right person about those sorts of lights. ]

You can find all manner of firefly like insects in the parks and the colors they produce are as brilliant as you'd expect of anything here. If you took some jars to the parks around dusk and made a decent offer of demichroma or snacks to the local kids, you could fill more than enough jars to put on a real show.

I'd say your friends are very fortunate to have someone so invested in their happiness, too.

Seeing people you love happy and successful in things that matter to them, is there anything better?

[ Shino finds it that obvious. He's invested in the happiness of people he cares about. There's something he can do to support that... so why not? ]

Oh, if you'd ask around, that'd be great! Murasame and I go looking but tend to get distracted with whatever else we're doing at the same time.

That idea about the kids and the bugs is great too! Too bad the preschool is done long before the bugs come out... I'll have to try that one. Then figure out how to carry that many jars. In a pack? Should the jars be wrapped in something so they don't clack against each other? How much air do those bugs need, I'm not going to suffocate them all... do any of them look like creepy cockroaches?!

I wonder.

I'll ask around, then. I doubt it'll take me long to find what we're looking for.

[ She's got an extra pair of eyes and many ears attached to brains she can tug and ply a bit. ]

I would wrap the jars securely. Poke multiple holes in the tops or use a breathable fabric with a tie. Either should work well. Insects are a hardy bunch despite their generally small size, so they should be fine if you don't fill the jars to the brim.

None of the ones I've seen have resembled cockroaches. They've been about the same size as the fireflies back home, maybe a little bigger. There are similar predators here, after all.

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many eons later...

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Shino. [ Xichen manages to cup his hands in greeting, shallow and soft and fond, at the vid pickup. ]

I have not been here for the previous summer, but ... where I am from, during the warm months there are sometimes nights of falling stars, nights that are often known beforehand.

If there is something like this here, stargazing during such a night would be a lovely... date, would it not? Unless, of course, one of those involved cannot see.

[ There are many, many ways to appreciate nature, not all of them about sight. ]

[ He smiles when he sees Xichen, hands offscreen but making some abortive motion. ]

I'd think so? I don't know, but that's what someone else was sorta saying that had me wondering about looking at stars... usually it's the moon, but the moons here aren't like the one back home.

[ So now he's contemplating what Xichen said, and that seems like it'd be fine? Xie Lian is the one who might feel more if he let himself, but he's not sure he would, and... hm. ]

I'll have to ask... who would know about those kinds of falling stars?

The moons here are more complicated, especially with the part of people brought here despite not wanting to be anywhere but where they belong. Or, for some, giving them another chance. And they are, I believe, for most of us too strange.

And the stars are still different, but even if you know them well, even the differences can be soothing.

As to who might know, I believe those who study the ways of things would be in the Lunar Scientia?

[ It's not like Xichen knows the term 'meteorite showers' but. That's the one. ]

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The moons are unpredictable enough it seems like a bad idea even if we're used to them, in different ways...

[ But he shakes his head, ruffling his hair with his hands to make those particular thoughts go away. ]

Oh, right! That's right! Maybe even at that University? That seems like something that'd be studied there.

Mm. Where knowledge is gathered, there will likely be this kind of information.

[ Xichen hesitates a moment, his eyes turning more serious even as he hums again. ]

You do not trust what brought us here.

[ He's asking for confirmation, not doubting or questioning the choice. ]

I don't think it'd be wise to.

... perhaps not. But... it still gives a chance to those whose life is no more for... at least a little longer.

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Depends what your friends are into. A walk in the park and a picnic, or a romantic candlelight dinner, or they might be more the type to want to go fight monsters together then have a picnic.

[He isn't judging. Just trying to find what he's dealing with.]

One would be up for the fighting, the other more for picnics. Not sure if candlelight is more or less romantic when it was common where they're from, but... is that romantic?

Walking in parks is probably good. Even if the one ends up tripping, they both like nature, and nature's always nice, right? If it's not trying to burst out of you?

In my world it can be, since we have electricity like here. It sets the mode, if that makes sense. Less light means you have to concentrate more on the person.

Right. Not having nature burst out of you definitely helps. Maybe if you're lucky you an combine the fighting with the picnic?

Also the food, right? Anyway, I think I get it... less light is good light.

Fighting... and a picnic? Fight one and then send them on a picnic?! One of them really doesn't fight and the other one, he does, so... set up a spar before sending them off or something?

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