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Sokka the 33rd - [Voice]

To everyone who was asking yesterday, Katara is just fine now. So... yeah, thanks Ginko. We owe you one.

[With that settled, Sokka moves on to the next order of business.]

Master Souji, sorry I missed our lesson yesterday. [The previous message should explain why he missed it.]

[And then because Sokka is feeling a lot better in spite of a crappy day yesterday (because he bounces back so fast), he decides to start preparing for the future. Which means he needs a filter.]

[Filtered from Shirley and Sanji 100%]

So hey, I kind of have a date I need to prepare for. Anyone got any good ideas about what exactly I should do? I know there's typical stuff like a dinner or flowers and stuff like that. But that's kind of amateur stuff, isn't it? I want to go all out! Sure, Luceti is kind of a boring place at times, but I want to really nail this one good. [Of course Sokka means the actual date (which is merely a practice one), not the person he's dating. Feel free to get that wrong, though.]

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... it won't be for awhile. [Around your birthday, in fact.] Hopefully the Malnosso will get over themselves by then.

[...] I've been hearing it's not a good idea to kiss on the first date. Your thoughts?

I hope so. I'd hate for it to be permenant.

But as for your question.... I guess it's not a good idea to be planning on kissing on the first date. But if the mood's right, it'd be worse to not kiss. You have to base your decision on whether or not she wants to.

So it doesn't hurt to be prepared then. Got it. [So he needs to write a note for Shirley that he can pass to her, indicating that this would be the moment they kissed on a real date.] Might take a few tries to get it right... [Maybe he should get some extra pens.]

...If you ruin the first try and don't think you can make it on the second, you really should just give up at that point. It's really not that hard.

... huh? [Oh! She thought he meant-] Right, right. I won't do that.

[...If he didn't mean that, then what did...? Oh well, time to move on.] So, then, how much do you know about flowers?

Flowers are pretty. Fire lilies are very popular. Snowdrop flowers make the other person kiss you.

[Snowdrop flowers make the other person kiss you? What an odd superstition. But it certainly wasn't the oddest she knew. ...Had she seen snowdrop flowers recently? Well, she can't really remember] ...So, not much--not that I really expected otherwise from someone like you.

If you want to start off on a good note, though, you're going to have to get a bouquet of some kind to give her when you go to pick her up. A hand-selected one might be nice, but you might be better off getting some help on that from the flower shop, or asking someone to go with you to give advice.

...But if she knows about that last part, you might want to steer clear of snowdrop flowers. It might give the wrong impression.

Oh, don't worry. The snowdrop flowers went away with Dragobete. [Good grief. If he gave her a bouquet of those, he might be suffocated from the kissing. Eesh.]

So what's your favorite kind of flower?

Drag--? [It takes her a moment, but already trying to remember when she last saw snowdrop flowers prompts her memory of that statue.] Oh, right.

...My favourite flower? [She has one, but it's embarrassing to admit, so:] Er. Water lilies.

Water lilies! [That's PERFECT! Shirley would love that. A whole bunch of water lilies. Yeah. A perfect plan. Yeeeeah.] Yeah, I could get some of those.

...Well, you could, sure. But I don't know whether the flower shop would have them.

Maybe I could find them on the lake or something.

That might work. I guess you could get points for effort, at least.

Anything else you can think of? I won't get to do it again, probably.

Let me think...I know you said that dinner was amateur stuff, but it would be a good way to start if you're planning to go in the even--

--won't get to do it again?

Well, you never know, right? [CAN'T TELL HER. It's for her birthday, after all.] I could blow it. Or be sent home. Or who knows, right?

You're planning on blowing it? What was this about wanting to "nail it?"

No no! I am gonna nail it! I just don't want to count my possum chickens before they hatch, you know?

...Your whats?

Possum chickens. It's part of a swampbender saying.

A swa-- [...you know what? That's not the important part. Time to topic jump back with a shrug.] ...I don't suppose you can cook, can you?

Uh. Sometimes. Kind of... not so much. And there's no one at Seventh Heaven it looks like, so...

...Maybe not a dinner, then. You could get away with something simple if it was a lunch or a meal like that, but unless you can ask someone who can cook to take over Seventh Heaven for the day, it probably won't work out.

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