[And boy, is he enjoying himself. He knees before one plant - this requires letting go of Sampo, and Gepard's forgotten about the ever present risk that Sampo might topple over and die of a heart attack, oohing and aahing over a plant. And then he stands and relinks arms and drags Sampo off to a second plant. This is the hell that Sampo has set himself up for. All for a pair of blue eyes.]
It's beautiful. [Too bad this isn't closer to work. He'd constantly go on his lunch breaks and he'd never emerge.] This flower is- [And he goes on a couple minute ramble about the basics, which segues into a story about a client which starts off basic - client wants thing, he offers thing, but segues into-] -then we had an argument about whether or not hyacinths and foxes were native to the same region- they wanted an arrangement that had plants and animals that would be found in the wild together, but I said they had the wrong fox. But I asked my sister- Lynx, she's my younger sister, and she suggested a mongoose, and my client liked that.
[Sampo lets himself get dragged along from plant to plant, sipping his abomination of a coffee while Gepard admires each flower. He even listens when Gepard starts nerding out about them. Sampo might be the guy who sells flowers, but that doesn't mean that he knows all that much about them-- he just has a good eye for putting them together in ways that are aesthetically pleasing. Flowers are a business for him, but they're clearly a passion for Gepard.]
A mongoose! That's an interesting one. [He's pretty sure he knows what a mongoose is. They eat snakes or something? Maybe?] Is your sister some kind of biologist? Or does she just really like animals? I wouldn't be able to tell you what's native to where.
[Is it a whole family of people with very narrow special interests? Gepard and his flowers, his sister and animals? That can probably happen, right, where you have a bunch of siblings who just decided to hyperfixate on different things.]
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Date: 2024-12-21 09:52 pm (UTC)It's beautiful. [Too bad this isn't closer to work. He'd constantly go on his lunch breaks and he'd never emerge.] This flower is- [And he goes on a couple minute ramble about the basics, which segues into a story about a client which starts off basic - client wants thing, he offers thing, but segues into-] -then we had an argument about whether or not hyacinths and foxes were native to the same region- they wanted an arrangement that had plants and animals that would be found in the wild together, but I said they had the wrong fox. But I asked my sister- Lynx, she's my younger sister, and she suggested a mongoose, and my client liked that.
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Date: 2025-01-09 05:20 am (UTC)A mongoose! That's an interesting one. [He's pretty sure he knows what a mongoose is. They eat snakes or something? Maybe?] Is your sister some kind of biologist? Or does she just really like animals? I wouldn't be able to tell you what's native to where.
[Is it a whole family of people with very narrow special interests? Gepard and his flowers, his sister and animals? That can probably happen, right, where you have a bunch of siblings who just decided to hyperfixate on different things.]