[A messily-wrapped box, with Maya's name written directly on the colorful paper. There's a handmade card on top, decorated with stickers and doodles of wintry images like snow, gingerbread men, etc. It's not properly signed, but the signature isn't necessary. On one side of the interior:]
Tall green trees in lights twinkling bright, Sparkling strands of tinsel and snow pure white, The smell of hot cocoa and apple cider too, A very merry Candlenights, from Sayori to you!
[And then on the other side:]
Maybe one of the gifts seems kind of random, but trees are sort of our thing now, you know? Plus, you're a druid! So I hope when you wear it, you think of me and all our adventures together. As for the pin, I was reading a lot about flowers for Mista's garden and I learned that there's like a whole language of flowers! The long purple flower is heather and it means "protection." The cluster of pink ones is phlox and it means "our souls are united." The white one is dogwood and it means "love undiminished by adversity." Mista and I have pins that match the heather and phlox, but the dogwood is just for you!
I was gonna write more in here, but I don't think I need to. Just read it and know that I'm really lucky I met you, okay?
[What is "it," exactly? Well, also tucked into the envelope with the card is a sturdy piece of stationery, white and dotted with delicate blue polka dots. On that stationery is—what else?—but a poem.
Inside the box is a set of hand-carved, hand-painted hair sticks which resemble the Steel Samurai spear and a necklace bearing a tree. There are slight imperfections in the sticks that indicate Sayori made and painted them herself, but she has been careful to smooth them out well enough that there's no danger of splinters. There's also a New New Aspen ornament in the shape of a magatama and painted the color of Sayori's hair. It's not as polished as the hair sticks; perhaps it was a much earlier attempt at carving? And finally, there's a pin depicting a string of heather halfway encircling a cluster of phlox, while a delicate white dogwood blossom is centered inside]
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Sparkling strands of tinsel and snow pure white,
The smell of hot cocoa and apple cider too,
A very merry Candlenights, from Sayori to you!
[And then on the other side:]
Maybe one of the gifts seems kind of random, but trees are sort of our thing now, you know? Plus, you're a druid! So I hope when you wear it, you think of me and all our adventures together. As for the pin, I was reading a lot about flowers for Mista's garden and I learned that there's like a whole language of flowers! The long purple flower is heather and it means "protection." The cluster of pink ones is phlox and it means "our souls are united." The white one is dogwood and it means "love undiminished by adversity." Mista and I have pins that match the heather and phlox, but the dogwood is just for you!
I was gonna write more in here, but I don't think I need to. Just read it and know that I'm really lucky I met you, okay?
[What is "it," exactly? Well, also tucked into the envelope with the card is a sturdy piece of stationery, white and dotted with delicate blue polka dots. On that stationery is—what else?—but a poem.
Inside the box is a set of hand-carved, hand-painted hair sticks which resemble the Steel Samurai spear and a necklace bearing a tree. There are slight imperfections in the sticks that indicate Sayori made and painted them herself, but she has been careful to smooth them out well enough that there's no danger of splinters. There's also a New New Aspen ornament in the shape of a magatama and painted the color of Sayori's hair. It's not as polished as the hair sticks; perhaps it was a much earlier attempt at carving? And finally, there's a pin depicting a string of heather halfway encircling a cluster of phlox, while a delicate white dogwood blossom is centered inside]