Someday my prince will come // Open

[ourparadise]

Who: Koharu & Other Mission Members PLUS anyone walking by
What: Kissing Frogs is...sure a mission.
When: All day!
Where: In a corner of a courtyard in Ironwall
Rating: PG? Kissing of Frogs WARNING

Settled in the corner of a courtyard, the sound of frogs is audible a few streets over. A dozen small boxes litter a circle around Koharu, settled as she is on bench, and a flask of water to one side. A little frog is balanced uncertainly on her palm, croaking. A thousand frogs split between a few girls was still far too many frogs, she thought, but it was a mission she was unfailingly qualified for. No one would let her do anything unless she took missions--or that's what she'd heard.

A little sigh and she leans down to kiss the frog's head--easily the least weird part to kiss--when the frog simply hops out of her hands and across the courtyard.

"No--no come back. Come back!" Raising her skirt to avoid tripping, she gives chase, trying to catch the stupid thing without actually hurting it. It pauses at the edge of traffic and she nearly has it--before it hops just a foot away from her hands.

"No--stop hopping!"

Comments

[ourparadise]

"Not at all. Just would make this a little more exciting if something actually did happen."

She reaches for a new frog and frowns, "Well traditionally it should be a kiss of true love. I did...actually wonder about that. Maybe their fairy tales are different. Or she just wants to cheat."

[someonetocarry]

"Pretty sure it's that she wants to cheat. Anybody out to get a prince ain't really likely to care so much how, right?" Zoe's tone is dry, and she puts her hands on her hips, eying the collection of frogs. A thought that has occurred to her already decides to surface. "Wonder if we get the coin even if we don't get any princes."

[ourparadise]

"I hope so. I doubt they're any princes to be found in this batch of frogs." Koharu raised an eyebrow at all the girls kissing frogs with not a single bit of luck, "It does seem...Rather sad. To hire people to find your prince for you."

[someonetocarry]

"Little bit, yeah." She moved to collect her second frog for kissing, and added, with a lighter tone, "I've never found princes to be th'best choice for men, anyhow. Too stuck up, too used t'gettin' their own way. Get herself a nice earthy fellow, she'll be better off."

Not that she'd met many princes. But she'd sure met people who felt like they should've been, and people who were rich enough to be.

[ourparadise]

"If we're going with fairy tales, I like knights better. They're brave and can fight and all of the important things." She's put a bit more thought into this than she cares to admit to a relative stranger. A little more head in the clouds than she normally is, but reenacting a fairy tales does bring that out of her.

"But I suppose if she's going to insist on a prince perhaps they are made for each other. Same values." And that's as close as she'd get to openly condemning.

[someonetocarry]

"Mmm. Maybe so." Zoe picks up that veiled disapproval with some amusement, casting Koharu a sidelong glance and smirk, then gives a second frog another anticlimactic kiss, and goes for a third. How many does she have to kiss before this lady will let her go.

"You can keep the knight," she adds quietly, probably the most personal she's gotten with anyone here, and even this is pretty vague. "I'm strong enough to fight my own battles. Give me a baker, somebody I ain't gotta worry is gonna get himself killed."

[ourparadise]

Koharu doesn't speak for a little while, kissing another frog and then finally getting her thoughts together. She's hesitant. It is personal and she wouldn't be upset if she was brushed off.

"Hard world? I know I don't...have to worry so much about it. A knight is just a fairytale. I don't need protection or things. But I don't have to worry so much about someone I love dying."

[someonetocarry]

"We lived a pretty dangerous life," Zoe agrees, expression and tone neutral. "Usually it was him worryin' about me, though. I picked me a pilot, not a warrior, so he stayed outa trouble more than th'rest of us." Didn't save his life, in the end, though; ain't that always the way.