( closed starter for @marshallmaevik )
After a rather confusing but also rather helpful conversation with Stella, Daniel had come away with some sense of what he ought to be doing for Valentine's Day now that he'd asked Ryder to be his valentine... it was a good thing he still had a few weeks left, because there was a lot to be done. Figuring out how to get things into heart shapes seemed like a pretty important detail... but try as he might, he hadn't managed to find cookie cutters or anything remotely similar in that kind of shape. Perhaps Earth heart-shapes just weren't popular in this part of the galaxy? That was understandable, but it did mean he would have to get creative here. Maybe he could try cutting things into the right shape and hope for the best...? No, that sounded like a terrible course of action. Perhaps someone would be willing and able to help him make cutters and moulds of the right shape? It was worth a shot, even if he did feel bad about potentially imposing on someone like that.
But he didn't feel bad enough about it not to ask, apparently - he caught sight of Marshall making her way down the corridor, and plucked up his courage. "Oh - hello, Marshall! How are you?" Oh no, was it going to come across like he was just asking how she was because he wanted something from her? No, that was silly, this was the friendly sort of greeting he gave all the time. It wasn't nefarious, surely - right?