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[hadeir]

I have been reminded by a boy speaking only who spoke MOSTLY* in capslock that Christmas is coming. So in the spirit of giving, I'm willing to do odd jobs for the month. For a price, of course.

I'm a twenty-year-old med student and I'm good at both science and numbers. I part-time for the Confectionary as their cashier.

*edited as of this comment

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[compendiem]

...Mmhmm.

[ He will definitely never call her back... That line of thought is something he can appreciate, though, as the bird feeders were meant for birds while squirrels have their own methods of burying their food stores for the winter. He'll probably scatter some larger nuts for them later to ease off the competition, he thinks to himself, quiet as he keeps the ladder steady and waits for Celine to come back down so they can move onto another tree. ]

[hadeir]

[ See? It's a good idea. Celine carefully makes it back to the ladder and climbs down. She jumps off when she's at a safe distance from the ground. Tadah! There's no need to hold back on the praise, she did an excellent job and she knows it. ]

[compendiem]

[ There's no need, but Minato does it anyways, letting his gaze linger on Celine's oh so proud expression for a moment, then turning away to drag the ladder to the next target tree, half a block down. ]

Here's the next one.

[hadeir]

[ She will take that. ]

Why are you doing this anyway?

[ She's not going to climb until she gets her answer. ]

[compendiem]

The bird feeders?

[ He thought that was pretty obvious: to feed the birds. But it's not like they needed help getting fed, able to live just fine on their own long before Minato moved into the city. Which was only a month and a half ago. ]

I like watching them, I guess. Birds. I draw them.

[hadeir]

Wouldn't it be easier if you used reference photos instead?

[ But okay, she will accept this. She'll climb a few steps up the ladder again. ]

Besides, the birds here seem so [ a dismissive wave of her hand ] common.

[compendiem]

[ It's easier, but references don't have the same sorts of dynamics as a living creature does. It's the fluidity he wants to capture, the tiniest of motions that differentiate life from what may as well be a statue.

But also, because all the fancy birds are at the zoo and he doesn't quite have the money to go there every time he wants to sketch out a toucan or peacock. ]

I like crows.

[hadeir]

I suppose crows are cool.

[ They eat carrion and scare people. She'll gladly put bird houses for crow. ]

[compendiem]

[ The crows around here are fat off nuts and table scraps and whatever Minato thinks to scatter out on his balcony for them, so their intimidation is simply in numbers, flocks here and there settling down on the tree branches around where they're working, recognizing Minato's face for the weeks he's been feeding them, and more importantly, the food Celine is hanging up in "their" trees. ]

Other birds come out during the spring, I bet. Where there's more fruit, nectar, and insects to eat. Right now it's mostly crows.