Library, Wednesday

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Peridot wasn't wearing shoes today. Peridot didn't even own shoes. Or footwear in general, really. And so, if there was anything odd about today, she really hadn't noticed at all. Which was fine by her. If the island wanted to take a break from dropping sticky things from the sky or causing infestations of little cuddly creatures, she would be perfectly content to go about the library, business as usual, putting books away and dusting.

And occasionally pausing to look around to see if anything out of the ordinary was going on today, at all.

Nope. Still nothing.

[OOC: Open!]

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Okay, the tongue thing was a little bit weird and gross, but Summer tried to imagine tat, with a little bit of cinnamon and nutmeg, her hands would probably end up smelling like pumpkin spice, which, despite her vocal derailments against it, was a really lovely smell.

And greatest didn't even begin to cover it.

"Ohmygod, Peridot, where did you get her?"

She freed one of her hands from the licking of Pumpkin's tongue so that she could at least pet the little gourd on the head. If she didn't have an aversion to having pets again after the Snuffles/Snowball ordeal, she'd almost want to get one herself, wondering if there were other vegetable pets. A butternut squash cat, a potato hamster, an artichoke hedgehog!

Okay, she totally needed an artichoke hedgehog now.

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It was probably even doable. First, they needed to get Steven to spit on an artichoke...

"I went back to my own Earth over the giving-thanks holiday," Peridot said, super pleased that Summer was so impressed with her pet. "Lapis Lazuli and I gave farming a try, and discovered that corn is useless, and to make us feel better Steven licked a pumpkin seed!"

And then gored a regular pumpkin in front of her with a trowel so that she'd love Peridot and Lapis instead! How thoughtful!

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"Corn's not useless!" For a brief second, Summer was almost offended. But it was hard to stay offended with a pumpkin puppy licking your hands, even if the tongue thing was a little weird and gross, but Summer was imagining a little cinnamon, a little nutmeg, and boom, pumpkin spice hands. "How else would you get popcorn?"

She moved one hand to pet Pumpkin on the top of her head, before testing the waters to see if she'd like to be picked up and cuddled a little. She never imagined she'd be trying to cuddle with a pumpkin, and yet, here they were.

"And did you say he licked it? Does this Steven guy have the ability to make things anthropomorphic with his tongue?"

She sounded surprised, but seriously, it wasn't even that weird, she supposed, but, man, that had to make for an awkward dating life for that guy.

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"I don't eat popcorn, either," Peridot pointed out. Because ew. "But yeah, he licked it. I think it's... healing spit, he calls it."

She glanced at Pumpkin, who was quite happy to snuggle right on in. Pumpkin was a total sucker for cuddles, apparently.

"I'm not certain how making plants into intelligent, mobile beings is 'healing,' but I'm not complaining, either."