[Day 11, LM] Nesting Feathers

[Yasuki Honoka]

Honoka would be making her rounds of the city today. Both visits with purpose, and those without. This particular visit was one without. Having taken a day, enforced a day, where she could focus on this one thing. Stepping into Feather Your Nest Honoka was certain that she would find something here, something of appropriate... Theme? Vibe? She didn't really know, she just knew her heart drew her to getting a gift.

So, she was here.

[Suzume Hitomi]

The place is a bit busier than usual, with both of her assistants helping folks looking for handmade lanterns and offerings, with the upper reaches of the shop awash in lanterns.

Hitomi looks up from tucking a selection of paper outfits into a box at the sound of the door chimes. "Morning, Yasuki-sama. I hope the Fortunes find you well this festival day?"

[Yasuki Honoka]

"Good morning, Suzume Hitomi-san," she says, collecting her wits quickly and then bowing. Giving a cursory, polite glance around the shop with a smile. Honoka would continue, "I have heard of you, and your shop quite a few times, and I suspect I will hear of it again."

"Which is why... well, I admit I am glad I was able to catch you directly. I have something I... I have a request I would like to make of someone who knows this business, these items, better than anyone."

[Suzume Hitomi]

She finishes the box, closes it to set aside, and is able to offer a proper bow. "I handle everything coming in, so I'm happy to hear your request." She looks at the busy--for Feather--shop floor, then nods back toward the storeroom. "There's not a proper office, but you can come back if you'd like it quieter."

"Glad you've been hearing of us. Let's me know something's working in the advertising we put together!"

[Yasuki Honoka]

"That would be much preferred, yes!" she says, as behind her a man that was standing just outside the shop, but still behind her entered. Yasuki Hiroto, her yojimbo, took up a position close enough that she clearly knew he was there but didn't react. Their comfort with one another's presence having grown tightly over the years, and certainly even more so the last twenty four hours.

"I admit, I am... not used to this kind of shopping so your guidance will mean all the difference. As you see, I am buying a gift I hope to give someone!"

[Suzume Hitomi]

Hitomi doesn't seem overly surprised by the yojimbo. The clientele that can afford the more impressive artifacts here are the sort who would travel with protection.

Behind the counter; through the traditional half-length noren curtains with a painted scene of sparrows perched among the twisting branches of a pomegranate tree; and into the storage-slash-office-slash workroom. A long table holds stacks of paper lanterns in their flattened for shipping state, obviously being assembled and brought out as the front stock sells.

"I apologize for the chaos. I normally set up some space for walking clients through things when I expect to have them back here. But with the festival, I don't know that I'd have been able to do so, even with warning." There's several folding chairs...padded for comfort, but not fancy. The tea and coffee station looks well-used, with hot plate and kettle tucked into a corner with mugs shelved underneath an teas over. "But there's tea, regardless, if you'd like some."

"Now...which part of this are you unfamiliar with? Buying a gift or just this type of gift, i.e. antiques and traditional crafts?"