Adventure the Fifth [Video, locked from curingflower

[philip_charming]

[Dear Somarium, can you help a confused prince?]

I can't say as I understand this... 'Secret Llama' business? A llama is some form of woolly camel, isn't it?

Yet in any case, I'm supposedly meant to offer up a gift to young Miss Tsubomi for Christ's season. While I can't fathom why, it seems reasonable enough; she's a charming young lass and could surely use a cheering gift.

The problem, however, lies in one simple thing. Just what would be an appropriate (and interesting) gift for a young girl of such a strange and wildly different culture?

[Help him, citizens. You're his only hope!]

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[philip-charming.livejournal.com]

A dress, hmm? I'd been thinking of something like that; it ought to be practical, at the least. [Hmm, think hard-wearing cloth- and make it rather showy; she's getting the generosity of a PRINCE, after all!]

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[cursedtosleep.livejournal.com]

Would you like me to make it?

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[philip-charming.livejournal.com]

...Eh?

I'd thought of just going down to one of the shops and sketching out a rough design for a dressmaker. There's no need to force you to do everything on your own, is there?

[Philip has a prince's outlook toward things he can't do himself- just buy the services of someone who can, or as he likes to phrase it, delegating responsibility. That's an important thing for a ruler to know, you know!]

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[cursedtosleep.livejournal.com]

[Aurora, even living here after for more than six months, was still unused to just buying things. What she couldn't make, find, repair, or grow herself was a luxury that could go without or was something to acquire for special occasions. Even Rapunzel's paints had been something they could make together... although eventually they did start buying some of the paints. She smiled as she ran her fingers through his hair.]

I'm sure whatever you find will be wonderful for her.

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[philip-charming.livejournal.com]

[HMMmmm...

Aurora DOES know from dresses, what with actually wearing them and all. Maybe he should get her opinion?]

I hadn't been thinking of just looking through what was offered, really. That might be all well and good under other circumstances, but if I'm to give a gift it should be recognizably from me. That's why I was intending to have someone work up a dress styled from back home; I'd been thinking something like this.

[Philip's hand moved across the page, sketching a rough but recognizable outline of a slightly elaborate peasant dress, good for feastdays. He wanted to keep it appropriate with her station, after all.]

You see, this part should be all in red, and the underskirt all in white; it should make a striking contrast. [...Just like Aurora's wedding dress. Why didn't he realize that before!?

...Wait, how would it matter?]