#thinking about that meme prompt u answered with hikari going 'excuse me... she asked for no pickles' i am so fond

[standbowed]

@caestusvulpes // starter call.

"Oh...! It's my first time seeing you on the job like this..." Hachi would take the time later to feel embarrassed over how fixatedly she'd been wandering, trying to track down the source of that sweet, floral scent in the evening air (like a cartoon dog following the smell-lines of a pie cooling on the windowsill, or something--as someone whose name is already misremembered as that of an infamously loyal canine, the imagery there is a little too on the nose). For now though, she's simply transfixed by the artful way Hikari tends to the hedge between them, its small, fragrant blooms just beginning to open.

"...How do you know when to stop trimming it back? Or watering? I feel like I always overwater plants... Oh! Sorry, I shouldn't bother you while you're working, right?"