Chtholly raised her brow at his statement. Now, that’s strange. Just few minutes ago, they had quite an argument, making her realize that they had their own mindsets. Now, he suddenly wanted to know about something that he wasn’t even interested?
She never heard of that sentence, it wasn’t even in the books she had ever read. But, that was worth to be noticed. It takes only a step for someone to learn the ambiguity before acknowledging its purpose… She repeated the sentence to herself inaudibly, as if she had learned something new that she wanted to remember.
“Actually, your patience and perseverance are being tested here. You need to be careful, and patient, for a certain amount of time. That’s the key.”
She took one of the twirled flower he gave to her, and tied the edge of its stem to one of the already-arranged flowers. She adjusted it, carefully so it wouldn’t break the fragile stem, and for the flowers to not be covered by the stems from the other flower, also to fill up the empty space at the flower crown. She only need few more for the flower crown to be perfect.
“Also, make sure that the flowers have variety. Especially in the colors.”
She took a pink-colored flower, and carefully twirled the edge of its stem before tying it to the empty side of the flower crown, and adjusted it.
“Keep doing it until there’s no empty space left at the crown, and you get it.” She finished her explanation. “It’s not that hard, but you have to be careful and patient for perfect result.”
Oh, how she reminded him of the girl in the tower from his past memories. It was a rather familiar concept, but of course, the differences were still very detectable. For a girl to become a woman took much more than ongoing years- there was a more complex procedure behind it. To leave that innocence and purity behind were one of them, but he wasn’t going to fuss about it. Without a doubt, it was better to leave naivety as it was than to ruin it with a single snap.
“You need not to worry about patience- I have plenty more where it came from,” he remarked jestingly. Although he admitted he may not have been the most patient person in the entire universe, he had learned to heed to it when necessary. It was most crucial for a scientist to watch and observe rather than initiate without thinking, anyway.
Watching her fingers do its magic in creating the crown, he began to do his own. His colors were a bit more tamed compared to hers; it was a simple pattern of blues and whites, much like the palette of the girl in the tower. It wasn’t intentional, but perhaps it he had grown to it.
His hands mimicked hers, fiddling away with the stems as they gradually connected with one after another.
“You know, I’d say this is a good exercise for those with short temper. It certainly tests your patience as you’ve said, and I can imagine how well it’ll turn out for anyone that harbors such an attitude.
I can already name a few candidates who’d be willing to partake in this.”
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