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when the narration said that Kedri had "a fair amount of experience with meditation", that was with a wink and also a nudge
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Kedri steps across the threshold of home. Today's shift at the cannery was fairly short: it's still early afternoon.

She closes the outer door of the entryway, turns on the large air purifier, washes her hands in the entryway's sink, changes her clothes into something less permeated with ambient fishiness (she happens to like the scent of fish, but it's possible to take it too far), turns off the air purifier, washes her hands again, and goes through the inner door with a minimum of inward pollen leakage. It wouldn't do to poison Rialu.

The process has long since been ingrained into habit, and she doesn't pay much conscious attention to it. Mostly, her mind is on the little bag inside one of her house-outfit's belt pouches, its weight settling against her hip when she puts the clothes on.

Tomorrow is the summer solstice: Tenida's birth season. Tomorrow, her wife turns 32.

Tomorrow will be a day of public festivities. They will dance and sing in the streets together, Tenida wearing the silver circlet marking her as one of the summerborn guests-of-honour.

Today, though, is a good day for a quieter celebration.

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Tenida is in the kitchen, slicing fruits for a fruit platter. She occasionally eats a slice as she goes: processing fee, you know.

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"Ten!"

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Tenida chuckles, rolling her eyes affectionately at the wordplay of Kedri shortening her name to 'hi'. "You never get tired of that one, do you?"

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Kedri grins. "Never."

She nose-boops Tenida.

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Boop!

 

Tenida offers Kedri a slice of strawberry.

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Ooh, yes please!

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Tenida takes a piece too, then slices up another berry and arranges the slices on the platter. "Almost done...there."

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"So, um-- I got you something."

She still gets butterflies, after all this time.

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"Here, come see."

She leads Tenida over to a couch to sit down.

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Tenida follows curiously.

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She pulls the little bag--dark grey, with a symbol of a silver bell on it--from her belt, and takes out--

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--a glittering blue crystal. It's cut in a careful middle ground between polished and rough-hewn, aesthetic curves and lines but with a complexity and depth to it.

It would be easy to get lost in.

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Tenida might have wondered if she was reading too much into it, but the tsanti on the bag makes the context very clear.

"Oh. It's beautiful."

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"Could we, um-- I could definitely-- it's that time of the month, you know, and-- Rialu's with the kids right now, I can go make sure he knows not to bother us--"

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Kedri did, in fact, know that Tenida was due to be ovulating today.

"Absolutely."

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