Yuletide Glow

[Jiyu Simul Stamus]

Snowmen were something she had never particularly gotten to indulge in before due to how hard she worked. Anything childish she had not done with her kids, well she never did it at all. The packaging was rather adorable, though that war rarely the most important part of a package given to someone, especially this time of year. Mismatched optics gazed at the tiny three circled men wrapping up whatever Rosemary intended to give her. Once more she considered the snowmen along the present and how childish they seemed, but it was something she could appreciate. Someone who appeared cold as she was but so clearly was not, actually knew how to reach out and even in mild ways express how she felt about another person. What was this action saying about Rosemary's feelings? Jiyu wished she was able to decipher things like that sometimes but in the end she never was able to figure out things like this. Anyway, enough time thinking, she could do that later when her nap fell through due to flashbacks.

Pricking the wrapping open with her saber fangs the calico carefully peeled it away with her claws to get a good look at what the ocelot had gotten her. "I can use all of it." her voice was cold but at least she managed to run her paw over the canvas and use that same paw to drag the paints closer. While the canvas was easy to use? She was going to need to kill someone in order to get the blood into the paint, it often did not feel right painting without some form of blood to water her paint. "You can have the plants you saw when you came there." she now realized that such an offer was the best way to finally get rid of those terrifying icky things growing in the garden bed and window boxes of her house. Sleeping had become difficult with the plants decaying because she would never be able to care for them, touching those things was beyond her capabilities, one of the few things she would admit to being unable to do. Even putting this together? Had sent far too many flashbacks through her mind.

"It is beautiful. Though I prefer darker waters to look at." while the two of them were in a dark cave the lake itself was softly illuminated by the crystals. "The moon almost gone, on a cliff above a large tree surrounded lake surrounded by open sky." that would be her biggest fondness in location though she did not admit to liking it bringing it up in the current conversation should have been enough of a hint, since she wouldn't often speak nor bring up something irrelevant. "I watched my siblings do those things, they were better." she was just mimicking what she had seen in the past, what she had read in books and hoping no one realized she had no clue what she was doing.

Jiyu looked over at Rosemary again, pushing forward the small box she had gotten to place her gift in she wrapped her tail around her legs to wait for the other to open it. Within the box? Contained a mason jar which was filled with a forth with sand, some crushed up beetles made something that resembled water, broken plants to substitute coral, and several broken pieces of things like ram horns or equine hoofs resembled shells.