[Mingler] Happy Easter, for the kid in all of us

[chevalier_boy]

The past few days and nights, Riku has been busy, hardboiling eggs and coloring them. And he's also been kindly asking the Plothole to give him several dozen chocolate eggs and plastic eggs full of jelly beans and malted milk eggs. Late Saturday evening, he slips out to hide the colorful treasures in the bushes and flowerbeds and under the trees in

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[ichbinzillah]

Zillah steps out into the common room that morning and raises an eyebrow.

"What's all this for?" she asks. She's never really celebrated Easter.

[cute_shinigami]

The smell of the food was enough to draw Tsuzuki to the main room. "Oooh, this looks good," he says, hungrily. Then spying Zillah, he says, "I think it's for Easter Sunday: I've seen spreads like this."

[ichbinzillah]

"Oh, I didn't even realize it was Easter!" she said with a laugh. "I guess that's what I get for being raised by atheists and being like, vaguely Jewish." She was amused.

[cute_shinigami]

"Yeah, I'm not Christian myself: I grew up Shinto and Buddhist, and my family wasn't very serious about either," he says, hunting for a plate and piling some salad onto it. "But my mom went to a Christian school and I've always liked Christian holidays." And there was that case at a boys' school, where he went undercover as a Catholic priest.

[in_summer_leaf]

Hisoka's never celebrated Easter, but a few of his friends were Japanese Catholics (long ago in his first life, in his school days). He's up for an Easter egg hunt, and he takes a basket off the top of the stack. He'll get to the food (which looks delicious) later on.

He looks around for Riku (or anybody else).

[chevalier_boy]

Riku will be just coming in with a tray of hot cross buns (fresh from the oven), when he spies Hisoka. "Hi there! Happy Easter!" he says with a big, if sweetly sad smile. "Or, if you don't celebrate Easter, happy springtime!"

[in_summer_leaf]

"Happy Easter, Riku," returns Hisoka. "I'm perfectly happy to celebrate the occasion, whatever it is. Looks like you've put some real energy into this! Did you do all the cooking yourself?"

[chevalier_boy]

"I sure did: it's kept me busy the past couple days, but it's a lot of fun," he says, smiling with pride. "I put some eggs out for an egg hunt, in the yard, if anyone wants to join in."

[advisorattorney]

Of course Mia's at the brunch table in a yellow sundress glad to shine along with the sun. Her family adhered to a mostly Shinto religion, but Mia knew about Easter and it's celebrations through visitors to Kurain Village. She even joined in on occasion once she started living in the valley.

[non_foxy_widow]

There's only a Papist chapel here, but Emmie has decided it's better to attend anyway: the young vicar or whatever he is, seems like a very devout young man, and devotion trumps dogma any day, in her mind. She's just coming in after morning service, when she spies the young lady at the brunch table. "Someone has been quite busy preparing a proper breakfast," she notes.

[advisorattorney]

"I know... it all looks delicious." She notices a empty chair beside her.

"Sit with me?"

[non_foxy_widow]

"By all means: it is a day to celebrate life and the spring and eternal life, if you believe in such things," she says, approaching and drawing up a chair to sit down beside the young lady.

[prisonwonka]

Here's a person who's going to jump for the egg hunt. Like a lot of disturbingly childish people, The Warden never really celebrated Easters or Christmases or holidays that revel in youth. Sure his overly strict Gentile father was dead, but his will stated that The Warden would be raised in his Mother's religion, Judaism.

The Warden was always jealous of Christian kids and their awesome holidays.

So here's a grown-ass man running about the yard with a basket like he's five.

[thistle_muncher]

Eeyore is puzzled to find eggs hidden around his house and in the grass near it. Not having hands to pick them up, he's gently rolling one with his nose toward a pile he's made in the middle of the lawn, hoping someone will find them, and perhaps help him get the foil off one of the chocolate eggs.

[prisonwonka]

The Warden spot Eeyore and his own collection of eggs.

"Hello there, you adorable creature! Need a hand."

He can be nice sometimes, but only to weird creatures and people.

[thistle_muncher]

Eeyore looks up, then looks up and down the odd man, assessing his peculiar colored clothes. "Yes, please: could use a kind hand to unwrap this chocolate egg," he says, nudging it toward the Warden's feet.

[ofsandandstone]

Lystra's gone out for a walk in the grounds, though she's not getting anywhere terribly quickly, because Tyan's holding her hand and eighteen-month-olds don't walk very fast. She stops when she catches a glimpse of something colourful in a clump of grass, and she bends down to pick it up.

Anyone else who's around might run into her. She's standing at the side of the path with a painted egg in her hand, staring at it curiously. She has no idea what Easter is, of course, so she hasn't got a clue what it was doing there. But it's pretty and she likes it.

[aperion_oneiros]

Cobb is out and about, getting some fresh air: the Easter eggs remind him a bit of his kids, which has caused him to feel a twinge of homesickness.

But spying Lystra, enraptured by the egg, he snaps out of this. "Found a treasure?" he asks.

[ofsandandstone]

"It's beautiful," Lystra says, eyes wide. Then, a moment later, "What is it?"

[aperion_oneiros]

"It's an Easter egg: little bit of art made from an egg," he says. "Someone likely put it out for an Easter egg hunt."