[open] making today a perfect day (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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Who| Anna and YOU!
What| General merrymaking, flower crown distribution, and probably skipping.
Where| All over the Tribute center!
When| Post-Arena, pre-Crowning
Warnings/Notes| Excessive...cheer???




It's been a few weeks since Anna came out of the Arena, and as such she's managed to dispel all of her gloom and moping by the time the finale comes around and the Victor is announced. She's overjoyed that one of her friends will be crowned this time, and for the princess, it's just plain been awhile since she's had a few nice things going on in her life, so she decides to give in to a little merrymaking.

The tension she still holds with a few of her friends aside, Anna's got a few good reasons to celebrate--even if she's had some awkward moments and slip-ups, and there are an uncomfortable amount of people wearing Commemorative T-Shirts featuring a very close-up rendering of her and Bro kissing--so she turns to one of her favorite hobbies: making flower crowns.

Normally, she does this kind of thing in her room, but this time, she decides to take it to a new level. For the first couple of days, you can find her spread out on her stomach on the floor of the District 4 commons, flowers of all sizes, shapes and colors blanketing the floor, making crown after crown. She spends quite a bit of the time she's working humming to herself, occasionally breaking out into song when she feels particularly happy, and she's happy to take requests. But by the third day, she decides that it's not enough to simply decorate her District-mates, and takes the whole operation down to the lobby, where she settles in on the rug by the hearth and sets to work, turning out lovely crowns of roses and daisies, daffodils and asters, and even some exotic flowers whose names she doesn't know, just that they're lovely and fragrant and people should have a chance to appreciate them.

And when she's exhausted her supply, she'll spend the next couple of days sashaying about and distributing them. Many of them go to her friends and loved ones, but she also takes care to hand them around to perfect strangers, too--who doesn't need a dose of good cheer, after all!

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"It was pretty." The Elf who had been wearing it had been far prettier, beautiful as a real flower, but Sam didn't so much have the words to explain that. "And it had a beautiful name, too, but it'd mean nothing if I said it here-- them having set their ears to keep out Elvish."

He moves to sit down next to her, brushing piles of flowers carefully out of his way, to put them closer to the same level - he's not used to being the taller one in any conversation. "...Though what you've made here is lovely, too," he says, reaching out to pick up one of the finished products, and turning it over in his hands with the eye of an expert. "Fine work! It'd hold up through a whole May Day's worth of dancing, I think."

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Anna's pleased when Sam moves to sit down beside her, glad for the company. "The whole language thing is problematic when it comes to that, isn't it? But I'll take your word on it," she promises.

She watches him inspect her work, beaming with pride when he proclaims it to be satisfactory. "I hope so! I know for sure you can run for ages with them on and they won't fall apart. You can have one, if you like!"

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Someday Sam will have a crowd of daughters, all of them named after flowers, same as his wife - though of course he has no way of knowing it now. For now, he has just the pile of crowns strewn over the floor around them, which he picks up and sets down one by one, admiring them each in turn.

"Well, if you're offering," he says, pleased. "Though I'd be much obliged if you'd pick one out for me. You being the craftsman, and all."