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Book Party [ota]

Who: Romeo, Elfnein and literally everyone in the heavens. Even if you weren't personally invited every invite came with a +ALL YOUR FRIENDS and there's also a sign. Strangers are just friends these two haven't met yet.
When: 29th April. Afternoon onwards
Where: Temple Smol (Gegute's library)
What: Just the cutest book party the heavens has ever known! Bring your best book!

Arrival

You might have received an invitation, or perhaps you are just passing Gegute’s library but there is an brightly painted sign outside.

Book Party today!

Everyone welcome! Bring your best book or dress up!

Lots of tasty food!

The doors of the temple are open and once you arrive in the lobby there are more bright arrows pointing the way into the library. If you are still stuck mister Goat is at the help desk, he’ll direct any one who needs it!

Activities

The layout of the library hasn’t really changed at all, except a few tables being moved to accommodate activities and all the comfy reading cushions have been brought to a central location. All the shelves are decorated with colourful paper chains and streamers.

Romeo had really enjoyed Yuna’s birthday party with the activities to do so he had copied the idea for Elfnein’s book party! On one table there is material for making bookmarks. You might want to recut the card strips, they are a little wonky. There is ribbon and glitter and colouring pens and glue.

On another there is a cardboard box puppet theatre, painted in a riot of colours with colourful strips of material as curtains. There is some felt and other material, as well as scissors, glue and wool to make puppets with. A sign reads in childish Hirigana. Show your best book!

Food

The invitations had promised lots of tasty food and there sure was a lot! A whole table filled with tasty treats, Romeo had been very very busy! There was a whole tray of chopped fruit, another of vegetables like carrots and cucumber.

There was bread and cheese and two bowls of pasta with different sauces. Another bowl of noddles with meat and vegetables. There was a huge bowl of rice too with a tray of grilled fish and a bowl of broccoli and asparagus.

An entire part of the table was taken up by apples and things with apples in them, apple turnovers and even an attempt at an apple pie, it was a bit smushed but probably tasted fine.

There was a tray of very misshapen cookies with messy icing and another of even messier cupcakes with far too much buttercream. There were also churos and a chocolate Gateaux, these seemed to have been bought rather than made, Romeo hadn’t even known where to start it making them!

There was an attempt at making books and other shapes out of rice and vegetables packed in the two bento boxes Ebisu’s temple had given him for Christmas, but they were a bit crumbly, misshapen or just plain strange. In the centre of Romeo’s bento attempts was his magical bento box, every time it was opened there were different fancy bento creations, if the children’s attempts left a lot to be desired.

Have fun!

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"Glitter is tricky!" Romeo is glad to see Ebisu! He knew that his friend was a really really busy god so it was really nice of him to come to Romeo and Elfnein's book party! He's glad to see Aomi and Kiwami as well and smiles at them both.

"Do you want me to get you more card?"

Aomi smiles back politely even as he and Kiwami are in the middle of cleaning up the mess that's been made. That it wasn't worse is a relief, because it could be... But, fortunately, it's been caught just early enough for everything to be fine.

That leaves Ebisu free to nod cheerfully. There's no point in giving up just yet, right? "I'm certain the next one will come out a little better. I think!" And if it doesn't, well.. Maybe that will be the time to give up. "Are you skilled with using glitter?"

"I'm sure it will come out better too!" He quickly found some more card, he had made sure there was lots in case people made mistakes!

Romeo nodded, "I wasn't at first! But I like it lots because it makes everything look so sparkly so I made sure to try really hard and practice lots so I got good at using it!"

Practice made perfect after all!

"So it's that simple..." Just keep trying, huh? Ebisu frowns down at the mess that is being cleaned up. It sounds like an awful lot of work, and he's not great at such fine details like this. However, well...

"Can you show me? Perhaps it would help." Also, he suspects Aomi won't let him get away with not trying.

"Yep!" Just keep trying. It was how you did anything in life! Or death. Same thing really when you got to live in heaven with lots of friends!

"Of course I'll show you!" He reaches over for the tub of glitter glue. "So you gotta do it slowly or it will all try and escape all at once!" He demonstrated, concentrating as he squeezed the bottle slowly slowly until the glue began coming out of the nozzle.

Well, if he's asked, Ebisu certainly isn't going to be so disrespectful as to not give it his all. Shifting upwards a little bit so that he has a better view, Ebisu leans in attentively. So going slow is the key, huh?

"Is it hard, figuring out how much force to give?"

"Not too hard! You just got to try it!" Romeo grinned and passed the tube over. The best way to learn after all was to practice.

"So just go slow and gentle and slowly get harder until the glue moves! But be ready to slow down if it goes too fast because then there will be glue everywhere!" Again!

Romeo doesn't mind though! Glitter was meant to be messy!

Oh. Darn. He guesses he can't get away that easily, huh? Ebisu pauses to glance back up at his shinki, as if hoping that he can get a way out through them, but all Aomi does is smile down at him while keeping a deceivingly gentle hand on Kiwami's arm.

Well, he guesses that's that.

"Slowly... and gently... Okay." Mouth scrunched up, he tries to press down on the tube... but definitely not enough. It's. It's taking a little while. "Figuring out how much to use is hard..."

Romeo watches Ebisu and the glitter tube carefully! Slowly! Slowly! Slowly!

Right maybe this is a little bit too slow! But practice makes perfect! "Try just a little bit harder! I think you almost got it!"

He knows, technically, that Ebisu is many many hundreds of years older than him but like this it is easy to see him like a littler brother to help.

A lot of people technically know that Ebisu is many centuries old, and yet things are still as they are. Ebisu isn't particularly bothered by it, just nodding his head slightly.

"Mmm, my fingers might slip, and then it'll definitely be too hard-" The end of the glue bottle suddenly sputters out a little bit, and he jolts. "Oh!"

"Careful!" Romeo cautioned but he also grinned a huge grin. "There see, you got a bit of glue so just keep doing that really carefully. And don't let your fingers slip!"

He was glad that it was working and Ebisu was learning this really important life skill.

Only the most important life skill of learning how to squeeze glue out of a bottle. Well, that and other things, like proper finger strength and other basic things all children do when they do normal children things like crafts or sports.

Ebisu is... a bit lacking in that department. All of it.

Still, he eases up a little bit. "Oh, so that's how?" Well, if Romeo says so, and he tries to keep up that same pressure as he guides the nozzle. It's not exactly.... consistent, but it hasn't exploded again yet.

"Exactly!" Romeo grinned as he watched the glitter glue come slowly out onto the page! He was glad that Ebisu had finally gotten it!

"You're doing really well! It's going to be a very pretty bookmark!"

"I can only ask that it's practical," Ebisu says with more solemness than is anywhere near necessary for such a simple craft. Still, he continues to do his best, mouth scrunched up and hands occasionally shaking. Finally, when he's done, he puts down the bottle with a breath.

"My hands hurt.... I was worried that I would make it splurt out again."

"They hurt?" That's not good! Craft isn't meant to make your hands hurt! Romeo reached out to take one of Ebisu's hands to examine it. "You did a good job though! You made it all come out at just the right amount!"

There's no tug back or objection when Romeo reaches for his hands, and Ebisu patiently waits for him to look over it to his satisfaction. Ebisu's hands aren't visibly injured, at the very least, and there are some callouses that have started to form. More from him accidentally falling and having to catch himself than any hard work, admittedly...

"Mm, I think I was focusing too hard on them. If I don't pay a whole lot of attention, then my hands don't work like I want them to. I admire people who can use their hands so skillfully, whatever the action."

"They don't?" Romeo glanced up from his hands to the shinki around him. Was this something that Ebisu had wrong with him, his hands didn't work properly?

Sometimes Romeo could be clumsy or not know how to do things but his hands usually did what he told them to do!

Kiwami is as difficult to read as he always is, not really being an extraordinarily emotive person most of the time, but Aomi at least offers an apologetic smile. Ebisu just keeps speaking.

"Mm, and I'm really clumsy a lot of the time too." A small huff leaves him. "It's quite annoying, tripping all the time."

"Tripping all the time? Maybe you just got to practice more."

More of what? Walking maybe? Romeo's never known anyone who needs practice walking before, but maybe that's it! He studied Ebisu's feet, as if to try and figure out the problem.

"I try to walk around a lot..." Ebisu swings out his legs, not minding being inspected at all. Goodness knows his shinki do it often enough, especially when he's gone missing for any period of time, or it looks like he's tripped again. Having someone else do similar isn't much different, in his eyes.

"But I still trip a lot. It's like my legs don't want to be legs."

"They don't want to be legs?" Well that's a problem. "What do they want to be instead? They got to learn to do their jobs!"

He sighs, this a confusing problem. "I'm sure if you practice lots and lots it will get better!"

At that question, Ebisu pauses and has to study his own legs really hard. "I don't know," he says slowly. "Meat?" They're technically already meat, he thinks, although what makes up gods is... strange and uncharted territory. "Still, that's what I've been told by all my shinki, since it's not something that will go away."

Aomi crouches down, putting a hand on Ebisu's shoulder. "You need to have a strong body, young master." A smile is sent over to Romeo. "It's just the way his body is. Sometimes, not everyone's bodies work the same, even if they look like they're the same."

"They don't?" Romeo tilted his head. He hadn't known that before! But he guessed that was right. People were all different and even when Romeo had been still him but big he had felt differently and moved differently.

"I guess all your energy is used in your brain because you're really clever! So your body has got less energy for your legs!"

That was surely it.

That's definitely it, and Ebisu gives a nod. "I suppose sometimes the body has to compensate. I wonder what my other incarnations did to make sure that they were good fighters..." If only he could ask his shinki, or anyone, really. However, with the reason for his forced reincarnation, well...

Shaking his hands a little bit to help them loosen up, he nods. "To start, I have to defeat making a bookmark!" That's not how it works, but, fine.

"I bet they just worked really hard! Defeating a bookmark is a good first step!" You had to start with small things and then work up and that's how you got stronger!

"I bet by the time you finish it will be the best bookmark you've ever made!"

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