D7LA, Avon Calling (closed, private)

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

She took a feather she had stored for her brother. "The falconer will be very grateful for you do this favor."

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

Yuuwaku accepts the feather and tucks it away. "The honor is to serve.

"But I did not come entirely for that."

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

Hanatsuko cocked a brow. "Really? Then what is the next point in the agenda?"

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"Well," Yuuwaku starts up again, "we are having something of a soiree this evening, and I thought you might like to attend."

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

You must go and flaunt your feathers.
"Flaunt my feathers?" Hanatsuko chuckled at the idea. "I don't have anything nice to wear besides the kimono from yesterday."

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"And it was a lovely piece, certainly," Yuuwaku says. "But I think we can work to show more plumage for you, eh?"

She puts her hand on the bundle. "If you would permit it, of course."

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

"I don't want to impose Kakita sama." She nodded. "I am really honor for you doing this for someone like me."

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"It is no imposition, I assure you," Yuuwaku replies. "I can help, so I offer it."

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

"Please, your help is most appreciated." She gave a seated bow.

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

I suppose it'll do, Yuuwaku thinks, but Sana-kun would have a fit.

"Happy to do so," she says, opening the bundle to reveal a kimono in multiple shades of blue, looking like nothing so much as rippling water. "It is the kind of thing that would suit, I think, plumage such as few will be able to show."

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

"This is too much." She was surprised at the beautiful kimono in front of her. "I don't know what to say."

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"Perhaps you might try it on, see how it looks and feels."

Yuuwaku slides back slightly, as if to rise.

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

Hanatsuko nodded like a little girl. Yuuwaku might have notice the excitement on the girl. It was probably one of the few times that Hanatsuko got to wear something so sophisticated and beautiful. The life of a minor clan is no glamour. Most of her things were used by her cousins or her mother. "Yes... of course..."

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"Will you need help with it?" Yuuwaku asks. "I'm happy to offer it."

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

Hana giggled. "Yes please." She started to undress.

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

Yuuwaku nods and sets to it, helping the Toritaka get out of her obi--the knots at the back are always hard to get at, she thinks--and noting her musculature as she does. Then, into the new kimono, smoothing it out over her frame and tying new knots--secure, but they should be easier for her to undo, if she needs--until the robe is in place.

"Now, let's see you!"

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

The woman looked almost perfect. She was missing the hair style. "Should I wear my hair up or let it rest?"

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"For you," Yuuwaku says, "I think a simple style is best, showing off the natural beauty of it. Perhaps a simple tail?"

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

"That sound nice." She took off the ribbon that holds her braid out and found her brush. "If it isn't much would you help me taking my braid down?"

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"Of course not," Yuuwaku says, taking the brush and working with it to smooth out the hair as she unweaves the braid.

"This really is beautiful hair you have, you know. Like a cascading river in the night."

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

"Thank you. My mother told me to keep it neat and proper for me to find a good man to marry. Perhaps that is why I thought to cut it." She looked at the floor. "but you know... I really like it long it looks like a tail and maybe fool some people to think me be a spirit." She chuckled.

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

Behind her, Yuuwaku smiles.

"I think you will be a vision of loveliness, Toritaka-san. The man not stirred by you...I have to worry about him," she says.

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

"I just don't want to get too much attention. just a certain bird." She smiled.

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

Yuuwaku puffs out a laugh as she continues to brush out the Falcon's hair.

"Oh, you'll find that one coming to perch on your arm, I think," she says. "But isn't a brighter lure a better one for that?"

[Toritaka Hanatsuko]

"Some flowers attract humming birds, other attract bees." She sighed. "What kind of flower will I be?"