( France has lived for a long time. )



[Public Text]

Canada's gone. Sometime in the night. He wasn't kidnapped. I would have heard him. I would have known. He's gone.



[Private Text to Envy]

Can you stay over tonight?

All gifts should be delivered by Christmas Eve unless otherwise noted. Please let me know if I've forgotten anyone who deserves a gift for dealing with France~ ♥

Agent Dale Cooper has received an early Christmas gift of a long red scarf and will receive a 500g bag of high-grade coffee grounds.
Ahiru will receive a set of pink and black dance clothes and a pair of silver-gray mittens.
Canada will receive a fur-lined snow hat, a big white teddy ear the size of himself, and a set of plastic toy animals.
Castiel will receive a handbook on texting, common abbreviations, and general nuances.
Cecil Harvey will receive a box of assorted dark and white chocolates and a leather-bound journal.
China will receive a bottle of rice wine for cooking and an array of bottled spices.
Daemon Kneesocks will receive two pair of kneesocks: one a bloody red and the other cream-coloured.
Feferi Peixes will receive peppermint hot chocolate mix.
Envy will receive a pair of green earmuffs and a pillow book of dirty poetry.
Greed will receive a bottle of chocolate syrup for his creative usage and a long dark blue scarf.
Haku will receive a large chocolate bar and a pair of light gray gloves.
Hong Kong will receive a waffle maker specifically for gai dan jai.
Lithuania will receive a box of dark and milk chocolate covered in cracked peppermint.
Merlin has foreward-dated will receive stylish earmuffs.
Miles Edgeworth will receive "Big Brother France's Beginner's Guide to Self-Defense" and hot chocolate mix.
Netherlands will receive a hot chocolate mix and a tin of pipe tobacco.
Professor Layton will receive a box of hat care supplies.
Prussia will receive a box with two suspiciously large chocolate balls nestled next to each other and a pair of pink socks.
Romano will receive an child-size apron for cooking and a starter's set of cooking supplies.
Spain will receive a red cape with the Spanish coat of arms embroidered in the right bottom corner and a box of milk chocolates.

I had... a very strange dream...

The calendar says that three days have gone by. My left leg buckled when I tried to get up today, and my head feels like I've been hit with a sledgehammer.

Have I been ill?

When I woke, I... I thought...

I thought I could smell lilies...



[The 'Gear comes on to show Marianne's fuzzy red face. She looks worried, at least from the downturn of her dark eyes, before picking up the 'Gear. She brings it to an angle that captures France, who is lying in his bed in the Violet City Pokemon Center, staring listlessly at the ceiling. This is all the 'Gear picks up for a good few minutes before France turns his head slowly to the side, gazing with the same apathetic expression at Marianne and the 'Gear.]

Marianne...

[France sighs and sits up, a hand going briefly to the left side of his head and eyes fluttering as if the movement has made him dizzy. He reaches out and beckons Marianne over. The camera briefly catches France's two adopted Drifblims, Kai and Drifblim, and David hovering around the foot of the bed before it's switched off.]

[The video comes on revealing a very, very pleased France. Yes, he's the kind of pleased that normally is associated with bedroom activities and winning a war. Marianne sits in the background, looking equally as pleased.]

We will eat well tonight.

[He holds up a number of KO'd Rattata and Pidgey by their tails and feet and beams with happy satisfaction at the screen.]

Are these better roasted or braised?