Dite's Decadent Delights, Tuesday

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Kathy had come into the store today to discover that it filled with birds' nests. Tons of them, tucked away in corners, on shelves, under merchandise. All of the nests were filled with three or four pastel eggs in various colors and patterns, too. None of them looked remotely similar, even the ones in the same nests. Kathy wasn't a naturalist by

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Anders wasn't sure coming to see Kathy at work was the best thing to do for a serious conversation -- but he also wasn't sure a better one would come up. Setting up a special meeting seemed like it'd just make both of them nervous.

So he wandered into the shop about lunchtime, bag of sandwiches and snacks in one hand. "Hi," he said, and got distracted by a nest of bunny eggs. "-- wait, are those hatching?"

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"Hey," Kathy said, giving him a tired smile. "And--probably. They're the bigger ones, so I think those are going to be bunnies. Unless they're the ducks. Some of them turn out to be ducks for some reason. I don't get Easter."

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"It's the fake-Andraste rose from the dead one, isn't it?" Anders asked. "With some fertility symbols grafted on because it's spring."

He'd never made much progress in his understanding of Christianity, no. Mainly because he didn't see the point.

"But now I'm all curious -- why ducks?"

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Kathy shrugged, looking bewildered. "Ducks, rabbits, and chickens," she said, looking around at her store. "There might have even been a lamb or two? I decided I didn't want to go upstairs to check it out and see for sure."

This holiday was deeply weird.

"I'm going to go with an attempt to channel bucolic spring imagery and call it good."