Episode 8: Planting Song [Video Post]

[fail_assassin]

[Click. The video feed is switched on with the light bump of the table the communicator was sitting on, and Flonne can be heard singing cheerfully off screen.]

♫ I took a little seed one day
About a month ago
I put it in a pot of dirt
In hopes that it would grow...

[At the end of the stanza, she can be seen stepping in front of the camera's view. She is carrying the pot of the plant she received as a Christmas gift firmly in between her two little hands. Carefully, she walks it over to one of the windows in the living room and sets it down on the floor.]

I poured a little water
To make the soil just right.
I set the pot upon the sill
Where the sun would give it light...

[As she sings, she walks back out of the view of the camera, coming back in shortly after with a small chipped glass of water held in one of her hands. She tips the glass, gingerly pouring the water over the soil.]

I checked the pot most every day,
And turned it once or twice.
With a little care and water
I helped it grow so nice. ♫

[At the end of the song, she giggles and sits down next to the pot. Flonne gently pokes at one of the leaves with a smile. The plant has already sprouted several pretty white blossoms.]

There! Now I bet that you feel even better now, huh, Mr. Flower? Continue to grow up healthy and strong, okay?

Comments

[puzzledprof.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely song, Miss Flonne. The flowers are lovely, too.

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the compliment, Professor!

Do you like them? It's funny... These flowers look very similar to the lilies that I used to see in Celestia all the time.

[puzzledprof.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like almost any sort of plant. They all have their purpose, even if not all of them are beautiful.

Celestia?

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

Me too! But I have to admit, I like flowers the best.

It's where I used to live. Um... The closest thing you could compare it to would be the image of Heaven that most humans have.

[puzzledprof.livejournal.com]

Fluffy white clouds, then?

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

Well... kind of. It is in the sky, after all.

But there are also lots of floating islands.

[guardianofman.livejournal.com]

Isn't it wonderful how everyone's plants are starting to bloom? This truly was a thoughtful gift this year. Last year we all got some strange fish....

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

It really is. It's like a way to perk everyone up during the winter season. I'm very appreciative.

A fish?

[guardianofman.livejournal.com]

Yep. Last year we got these odd fish, they were sort of round and gooey and... well, blobby. They wern't a bad gift, but, I enjoy the plant much more.

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

Maybe they thought a little animal companionship would help?

Fish are easy to take care of too.

[guardianofman.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, maybe they did? Though, if I remember correctly some people were eating their fish.

[Action]

[super-overlord.livejournal.com]

[Laharl wakes up slowly, spotting his own flower, and promptly chucks it out the window, and then spots Flonne's, and has a brief flashback, before getting a rather pissed off look.]

Flonne... get rid of it.

[Action]

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

[Startled by the sound of the crashing flower pot, Flonne lets out a squeak of surprise and hugs her arms around her own plant.]

Wh-... What was that? D-did the burglar from before come back to raid the kitchen again?!

[After a few minutes, she swallowed hard and mustered up her courage the best that she could, shakily pushing herself up to stand. Then, when she's about to make a dash around the corner to get a closer look-- Oh. Laharl, you're awake!]

[The Fallen Angel blinks back at him and that intense look of his, wearing a worried expression of her own.] Laharl...? Is something the matter?

[Action]

[super-overlord.livejournal.com]

[Laharl is still looking po'ed, though not at the angel, that much is apparent as he hasn't taken his eyes off the flower.]

Kill... the flower. Or give it to me, so I can torch it...

[Action]

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

What?

[She turns her head to look past her shoulder at the flower, and then back to Laharl. Throwing her arms out defensively in front of it, Flonne stands firm.]

I will do no such thing! Even if it's just a flower, it's still alive!

[Action]

[super-overlord.livejournal.com]

[Laharl growls a bit, closing a fist as his sword appears obediently in it.]

Stand. Aside.

[virtualmenace.livejournal.com]

Yet more singing, hm?

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. I guess the mood just kind of struck me that way.

[virtualmenace.livejournal.com]

It seems to quite often.

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

Well, it always feels good to sing.

[virtualmenace.livejournal.com]

Are you in the band?

[gospelofgreen.livejournal.com]

What a cute song.

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you very much.

I'm glad that you liked it. -- Maybe Mr. Flower did too!

[gospelofgreen.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he was listening closely! The flowers look beautiful. Do you always sing to them?

[fail-assassin.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. That is nice to think about.

No, not always. Just when the mood strikes me, and these blossoms reminded me of the flowers I loved so much in Celestia.