[ Glib as that answer may be, she's not unaware that usually flowers are a sign of affection. Less so anything starkly romantic in her mind - though it has that association, too, pretty things as markers for precious relationships - but children might gather wildflowers in the field and proudly present them to parents when otherwise they should have been gathering wood. Or practicing. Or being productive little people in some form.
She picks out two of the flowers, holding the stems up and starting to weave them together. It's the work from the Khitlasi camp that reminds her of this; it's been years, and she'd never been good at it. She doesn't say anything to Garrus because she's trying to refamiliarize. ]
Enthusiastic, isn't it.
[ This whole planet is weird. How much longer is it going to be "allowed" to exist? (Talk about god complexes. It'd been bad enough confined to one world - making it universal is a great example of company-sized hubris. She wonders how often it ends poorly for the CDC. Frankly... she remembers the refugees in Selena. The ones who were responsible for the show in the night sky.) ]
Things only need to mean as much as you want them to mean. For example... [ she holds up her two woven floors, picking a third out of the pile ] ... "this can be made with only what it provides you."
[ Connections build, link by link. The strength is in those links and the chain as a whole, but it depends on each individual. ]
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[ Glib as that answer may be, she's not unaware that usually flowers are a sign of affection. Less so anything starkly romantic in her mind - though it has that association, too, pretty things as markers for precious relationships - but children might gather wildflowers in the field and proudly present them to parents when otherwise they should have been gathering wood. Or practicing. Or being productive little people in some form.
She picks out two of the flowers, holding the stems up and starting to weave them together. It's the work from the Khitlasi camp that reminds her of this; it's been years, and she'd never been good at it. She doesn't say anything to Garrus because she's trying to refamiliarize. ]
Enthusiastic, isn't it.
[ This whole planet is weird. How much longer is it going to be "allowed" to exist? (Talk about god complexes. It'd been bad enough confined to one world - making it universal is a great example of company-sized hubris. She wonders how often it ends poorly for the CDC. Frankly... she remembers the refugees in Selena. The ones who were responsible for the show in the night sky.) ]
Things only need to mean as much as you want them to mean. For example... [ she holds up her two woven floors, picking a third out of the pile ] ... "this can be made with only what it provides you."
[ Connections build, link by link. The strength is in those links and the chain as a whole, but it depends on each individual. ]