"Here," Rinali said, finishing setting them back up. "Did you want to work on them together? I'm not really familiar with these materials, but what you were doing seems to make sense, I think we could make a lot of these before dinner!"

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Hanatarou," she said warmly.

She pulled out one of the pipe cleaners and looked at it. "What are these, anyways? I've never seen a material like it before...it's obviously synthetic, but it's far more refined than what I'm used to working with."