23. poppy what

[actuallyagolem]

Question, Barge.

Are people still acting a little crazy? Because one of you put a flower on my door.

Do I have a secret admirer out there? Woman? Man? Fellow vampire? [Wink, Armand.] Come on, don't be shy. I won't make fun. Much.

((ooc: Howie left the poppy on Donny's door for Veteran's/Remembrance Day. Donny doesn't get it. He secretly likes

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[mrs_persson]

What sort of flower?

[actuallyagolem]

[Donny turns on the camera:]This kind.

Does it matter?

[mrs_persson]

Oh, of course.

It's Armistice Day, isn't it? Or Veteran's Day, depending on what part of the twentieth century you come from.

[actuallyagolem]

Armistice Day! Right, right. I forgot it was the 11th. We'd do that silence thing for the soldiers from the First Great War today.

[mrs_persson]

Two minutes' silence, eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Yes.

[Yeah, she was there for the original one. In multiple time-streams, no less.]

[actuallyagolem]

Yeah, that's right. The last time I even thought of Armistice Day was when I was still home. We hadn't even gotten into the war yet.

It was a little weird.

[Long, long pause before he adds:]

So the poppy?

[mrs_persson]

Not me. But it's a lovely gesture from someone. Someone British or French, most likely.

[actuallyagolem]

But what's it for?

[mrs_persson]

[There's some rustling of books, and then Una reads the following aloud:]

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

[Pause.]

That was written by a fellow named John McCrae, during the Great War.

[actuallyagolem]

Oh. So they're for...

[Well dammit, that makes him speechless for a minute.]

I got it.

[mrs_persson]

[Sympathetic.]

Yes. So ... I'd still say, a lovely gesture on someone's part.

[actuallyagolem]

Yeah. It was. Real thoughtful of them.