*A really tired Hisui shows up on the vine today. It looks like she's been spending all morning doing something, but she's cleaned her clothes before coming on the vine. After all maids must always look tidy.*

Good Afternoon.

I would like to announce that my mistress, Akiha-sama, has come to the Gardens. I ask that you please show her the same courtesy you showed me when I first arrived.

*Yes, this is the same one that died in Hisui's past for those of you in the Gardens who Hisui has talked to about that before.*

Akiha-sama is also interested in hiring a chef to prepare her meals. In exchange you will be provided with protection and a room in the mansion once it is finished being built. You will also, of course, have the honor of serving the Tohno family.

Thank you very much for your time.

[ Excellen has been kicked out of many places in her time: bars, restaurants, nightclubs, that one time in Build-a-Bear. But today is a day unlike any other.

Because today is the day Excellen Browning is thrown out of a library. ]

No, not now, Mommy...

[ The Vine shows a sleeping Excellen being carried out of the library by one of the bear guards and thrown casually onto the ground with an open book on her head. She groggily shakes her head after she lands and blinks. ]

E-Eh?

[ She had fallen asleep in the, ah...adult section of the library; after finding her snoozing amongst a mess of books, the bears decided she had enough. She shrugs and pulls the book off her head, intending to read it. The bear grumbles and plucks it from her and goes back inside with it. ]

Hey, hey! I'll sign it out! I, uh, forgot my library card in my other pants, y'know?

[ The bear does not reply. Excellen yawns and stretches.

And, once she knows the animal is gone for sure, she casually pulls out a small stack of books from the inside of her coat. She wags an eyebrow at the Vine goes right back to reading right there on the ground. ]