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<center></center>27th June - My Feien flower arrived!
1st July - Finally got round to getting this journal started ^^;

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My Feien's flower... It looks so delicate; hope I don't kill it >.<;

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None for now...

Such a busy week, it’s been – renovations still going on, last minute art contest entry (note to self: start more than a day before the deadline next time), unfinished commissions, Jet Set Artists’ official opening, uni Art Club stuff to deal with… and of course, the arrival of my feien flower.

It arrived at my house in a little brown box, carefully sealed and well padded inside to protect the bloom. I’d rushed up to my room with it as soon as I’d seen the postmark. I was so excited that my fingers trembled a bit as they pushed back the tissue paper to reveal the blossom nestled snugly within.

Such a wee, dainty thing it is, all purple and pink-gold. It looks a bit like heartsease, but with a distinctive purple scalloped pattern on the three foremost petals, which clearly mark it as more than a normal flower. Perhaps it’s a hint to the type of markings the feien will have? I decided to place it on the computer desk in my bedroom, since that’s where I am most of the time. Daren’t leave it out of my sight for long, in case someone at home mistakenly throws it out.

It seems fairly happy here; the desk is next to the large windows which stretch from the lower third of the wall right up to the ceiling. I’ve angled the floor fan which sits beside desk so that it doesn’t blow directly onto the flower incase it dehydrates the petals. Apparently the flowers don’t need to feed or be watered, but I’d rather not take the chance of having it dry out. Don’t wish to earn the ignoble title of being the first person who managed to kill her feien bloom *sweatdrops*

Over the past few days, I’ve noticed the flower reacting to certain sources of stimulus. I was singing to myself as I tend to when alone sometimes, when I detected a slight movement from the corner of my eye – the petals were shifting slightly. My first thought was that it was due to the fan, so I switched it off. The flower grew still. I watched it for a few moments, feeling somehow that more had been going on than what it seemed... The bloom remained motionless however, so I resumed CGing. I started singing again after a while. Again, the flower petals moved, waving ever so slightly as if stirring in a non-existent breeze. My mind finally made the connection between the sound and the action. To be sure though, I tried stopping and starting several times. (Sibilance! Am easily amused… but back to what I was saying. *reboards train of thought*) Also experimented with a few types of much, courtesy of my net radio and CDs saved into my laptop. Since I sometimes eat at my laptop, my feien flower’s had the chance to smell different kinds of food too.

Entry’s getting rather long, so perhaps I’ll end off here for now. Feel like drawing or KoLing too XD