This One's for the Lovers

This One's for the Lovers

Quest giver

Kain

Location

East Shroud (X:18.0, Y:16.3)

Level

43

Experience

 5,720

Gil

 1,729

Previous quest

Some Seedy Business

Patch

2.0

“

A rose is a rose is a helping hand, at least when a kindly botanist spots a man on the verge of botching his troth.

— In-game description

Steps

• Give the roses to the nervy nipper.

• Report to Kain.

Journal

• A rose is a rose is a helping hand, at least when a kindly botanist spots a man on the verge of botching his troth.

• Unlike the other Gridanian botanists of your acquaintance, Kain keeps a kindly eye on the people who walk the grounds. Taking pity on a painfully nervous young lover, he asks you to deliver a bouquet of roses to him.

• The sight of the flowers brings the young man out of his fluster. He heads for his lady love, full of happy determination. Kain will be pleased-- but not surprised-- to hear of this.

• Was it the flowers, or the kindness of strangers that smoothed the course of this love? To love is to be smiled upon by one, but to wed is to be smiled upon by the sundry...

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Kain: Once when I was doing some work in the herb garden, a goldsmith was there installing new vanes on the whirligig. We got to talking, and do you know what she did? She wed me, the minx.
Kain: The Twelve give in mysterious ways, and these gardens have seen their share of lovers. I can spot them quite easily. Why, there was one just now—head over heels, yet tongue-tied. Youth is wasted on the young!
Kain: Well, I must have been such a clod as that once, though I refuse to believe it in my heart. We must stand together, we clods in love. May I ask you to slip him a bouquet of my special Azemya roses?

Giving the roses to the nervy nipper

Nervy Nipper: W-we are two souls inhabiting one body and—wait that's not right. Oh noooo, I should of learned to talk! I mean, should have, should have! 
<Hand Over Azemya Rose Bouquet>
Nervy Nipper: No thanks, I'm taken!
...Oh. A delivery—from "a friend of the happy couple"? This is...beautiful. And it smells so good. Thank you.
Nervy Nipper: Really, thank you! I don't need a speech, I'm just going to give her these roses and tell her the truth! I spent the morning at the Sanctum pledging my love for her before the Twelve.

Reporting to Kain

Kain: Went well, did it? Everyone needs a little help sometimes. We who work in the gardens know that better than most—the great oaks, the tender seedling, exotic, and the commonplace; they all need care. Even you, adventurer.