That's what scripts are for. Elesse gets it.

Just so.

Once they're settled, Lily pulls out a small, dark wooden box. "I have something for you as well."

"Oh? This is a surprise."

She puts it on the little table between them. "Figured an exchange of gifts would be appropriate."

"Fair enough, I suppose." Elesse will in turn withdraw the wrapped painting and set it next to the box on the table.

Does she want to open them now, or wait until the end of their meeting - ?

They can do now. Might be something to talk about.

She takes Elesse's painting, then, and carefully opens the wrapping paper.

The painting is in a style of heightened realism, of two hands clasping. Each wears a different assortment of rings and bracelets, and an indistint lightsource in the center top above the hands casts multicolor shadows across the rest as it refracts through the various gemstones . The brushwork is detailed and precise, giving quite a lot of detail for how small the picture is.

"Oh, this is beautiful."

"I had some inspiration."

"And it's a good match for my gift for you."

"Is that a subtle hint for me to hurry up and open it?" she asks, reaching for the box.

"Might be."

Then she will go ahead and crack it open.

There's a green silk cushion inside, supporting a bracelet - the chain is a dark hard metal, with five large and six small charms dangling off it. Each is set into that same metal. The central and largest of the five main charms has a golden tourmaline gem carved in a 'lily cut' - one of Naboo's early elaborations on traditional Coruscanti gem carving, a trilliant gem with furrows carved from each of the three points to the center. The other four large charms are also in that early traditional style, all golden tourmalines with cuts named for flowers - a high-fire millennium rose, a smoothly curving tulip, a circular daisy with radially oriented cuts, and a five-lobed faceted blossom cut... Between them and on either side of the row of flowers are six small identical deep green tsavorite garnets, each in a leaf cut - a pear cut with steps rather than facets, rising to a central furrow.

(Lily is, of course, excitedly narrating exactly which gem is what.)

"Goodness." She picks it up to examine it more closely. "This is very fine work."

Preen! "I've been learning the craft lately."

"It's very impressive."

Very smug Lily. 

"My teacher said it'd be good for learning fine control."

"I think she was right." Elesse holds one of the gems up to examine more closely.

The golden lily shines and flashes, casting little flecks of refracted light out. It's a beautiful gem, with the irregular imperfections that reveal a natural source (imperfect gems are favored on Naboo for the two simple reasons that perfect gems are nearly trivial to make industrially, and that Naboo places a particularly high value on artistically arranged nature) - the transparent heart of this one is darker, almost reddish-gold, with a wispy transition to a milky yellow at the points; a handful of fortuitously placed needle-like bubbles at the center form a shape much like the filaments at the core of a flower, which catches the light as she turns it here and there.

Each cut is precise and smooth, no sign of tool marks, nor any heating nor friction from industrial cutting processes. It feels like Lily in a vague way, if Elesse focuses enough, but (probably) fortunately it doesn't feel especially dark. 

"It does feel like you."

"And your painting feels like you." She'd taken a small break from admiring it to watch Elesse, but she's still holding it. "Honestly... I never used to do art of any kind, and it'd never really occured to me that I could just make things." (Especially not with the Force; Fidela had initially thought Vader was fucking with her when she suggested gemcutting as a mixed hobby and control exercise.) "It's fun."

"I am happy to have facilitated the expansion of your horizons."