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🎁 delivery (dated 12/24).

[volkarin]

[ What to get the woman who seems to have everything? On the one hand, Emmrich doesn't harbor any illusions as to the fact that this place encourages its guests to be liberal with their romantic attentions, but on the other— well, he's old-fashioned, and Parisa's attention, if flattering before, has taken on a somewhat new shape and tenor, one that brings a slight flush to his face as he leaves a trio of boxes outside her door on Christmas Eve, each wrapped in brown paper and twine, with a paper rose adorning the pile.

— In the first box, a leather-bound notebook with her initials embossed in gold on the cover.
— In the second, a fountain pen and an accompanying pot of black ink.
— In the third, a ceramic lipstick tube, the shade inside a deep red.

A letter sits next to the lot, written in neat, looping script: ]

My dear Parisa,

How fortunate I am, to be caught in the sun of your attention. There are few things in this world as pleasurable as the company of a clever woman, let alone one so self-possessed. But let me not trip over my feet — in writing, no less — in declaring my own affection for you. Rather, let me say simply that I hope these gifts please you, and that I look forward to stealing away some more of your time in the coming year.

Yours,
— Emmrich Volkarin