lily's also fine

[endsjustified]

WHO: lily, various guests, ???
WHERE: lily barn
WHEN: day 45-46ish i guess WE CAN JUST CATCHALL AS NEEDED

[okay! it's been an exciting few days! of note:

- we still have two newer people, say hello newer people

- one of our newer people is bringing his husband over

- styx died recently

- perci is off asleep in a sheep pile still

- your shepherd probably should explain that it's a problem if you got hit by a light drizzle evening 45

- peony is coming over for dinner

- people probably have more memories to get back!

- there's a little addition to the barn for Blossom

- ??? other ???

we're a busy team]

Comments

[mykidisthebest]

[sometime before dinner Lethe is pulling together whatever winter gear they've created via herd mentality to dump into a basket in the living room. there. now at least no one will freeze if they go outside.]

Okay, let's see, what else...maybe someone knows how to knit scarves...

[and then he goes to help make dinner. he's zoomin!!! but you can generally catch him around the barn]

[dadinside]

[NEW PET HAS ENTERED THE CHAT?

... but okay, it's just some zombie wearing all black following around your loud blond man into the barn. don't be alarmed!!]

[quarantotto]

...

[mykidisthebest]

[looks more curious than anything; newbies don't usually make friends so quickly!]

Hey there.

[spinebuddyandme]

...

[ Squints at him ]

Who're you?

[papartner]

C'mon, I'll show you around and then talk to some people about you staying for a bit. Sound okay?

[ he already knows he's not going to complain about it sooooo let's fuckin go. ]

[ohlord]

[... whomst?]

[endsjustified]

[there is a stranger in the barn]

. . . a friend?

[nobetawedielike]

[ she's peeking out shyly at him from behind a wall

hello stranger ]

[hardpity]

[ PEONY IS VISITING! hello they are here. aides brought pomegranates. ]

[quarantotto]

[Walking in behind him, looking around quietly]

[mykidisthebest]

[hands them: some oversized mittens]

--Oh! Pomegranates? I've never eaten one before. How do they taste?

[spinebuddyandme]

[ hell yes pomegranates!! ]

Y'know, my abuela makes the best syrup out've these things. I can make some with these to try next time you come over.

[endsjustified]

It's good to see you all.

[spinebuddyandme]

[ Ananke makes it home just in time to help with dinner, slipping into the kitchen with a pack of fresh wild onion and what scarce herbs he could find today. Enough for a meal, at least. ]

[quarantotto]

Thanks for having us.

[papartner]

[ what do you do after you not so sneakily sneak your bro into your barn? Help with dinner? Clean compulsively? Stress about how he is going to tell everyone you're hitmen (which may or may not already have happened)? Yes yes and yes ]

[quarantotto]

[Watching him stress]

[endsjustified]

[fixes him with an unblinking look

not, like, mad about the new person, just please explain]

[spinebuddyandme]

So, "background checks"?

[endsjustified]

[at...some point in the evening where there aren't any non-Lilies in the barn, Charon quietly makes his way in from outdoors and then pokes his head in on everyone (or calls them if they aren't there)]

Did any of you get hit by some rain a little earlier, or water drops?

[mykidisthebest]

Was it rain? I thought it had started snowing for a second. Maybe it's warming up after all.

[ohlord]

... wasn't it rain?

[spinebuddyandme]

What's it matter if we did?

[axingnicely]

[ in the shared kitchen there are 7 individual wool hats that look like they were crocheted from scratch, (multicolored but mostly blue) a few slices of raspberry and apple pie, and some kind of spicy tea mix, all marked "for Lily" ]

[spinebuddyandme]

[ hot damn free pie!!

Grabs the blue-est of the hats and adds another little note simply reading "Thank you!" ]