Prompt Think Tank
It is the holidays. What do you do to celebrate? How does your Herald react? Do you have to explain much detail? Does something go wrong; if so, how do you and your Herald handle the situation?
Christmas.
The holiday he had (up until now) spent with his family, due to the fact that he had lived with them up until now. But now...now he had his own place. And well, yes, he would be going back home for Christmas, but still. He has
his own place. It needs...dunno. Decorations. A tree?
Lights?
Candles?
Fake snow everywhere?
Real snow everywhere?
Who knows. Who knows. Lind certainly doesn't. True, he could get himself an actual tree and get lights and ornaments and only see it briefly each day and not really have any presents to put under it that aren't from himself.
He could get a fake one. Wouldn't have to worry about watering it and having it shed, and it would certainly be smaller than a real one. He could even be lazy and get a pre-decorated one.
However, all of these ideas had one basic flaw. Money. Granted, he wasn't poor or starving, he was just saving much of it for....something. He wasn't quite sure. A good chunk of his paychecks were put into rent and food, and at least half of what was left was put into his savings account. The rest was purely spending money, which he usually used most of when he went out with his friends, which he doesn't do very often lately.
As you can see, there isn't much left for a Christmas tree.
So. Thrifty decorations, then. Well. Lights were pretty cheap, and if he asked nicely could probably borrow a few extra ornaments from Subo... Wheels began turning in his head as he got ready for work, and by the time he had gotten back home, an idea had been formulated.
All it took was a handful of thumbtacks and a strand of lights that were tacked to the wall in a zig-zag, vaguely tree like shape.
Voila.
Instant tree!
Which...will probably be there for a long time, as he would probably forget to take them down.
Of course, a few days later he didn't have to worry about taking it down, as the small blue creature decided to try and climb it and tore it all down.
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