back straight, chest out, just like a soldier

JUNIPER

you think i'm happy because i'm smiling,
but it's the easiest thing to do

"Ah, yes, they do that," Juniper replied, speaking of the woods. They clearly hadn't been too hostile to Sunjata, or he'd be much later -- or wouldn't have reached the embassy at all. "Perhaps I should have come met you -- the woods rarely play their tricks on the Fae."

Rarely, but it could happen, if a Fae disrespected their home. Still, Juniper couldn't imagine that the woods would take issue with her speaking with Sunjata -- or that, as much as they had a mind of their own, they possessed enough sentience to judge complex circumstances like this.

"It is new, thank you." Juniper beamed with pride. "The building was abandoned when I acquired it, and Ianto and Felix helped me fix it up. I wanted to make a place where outsiders could come to learn more about the Greatwood, to get help if they needed it."

if you looked a little closer,
you'd find my eyes aren't smiling too.

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