Open RP: Great Hall: It's Alive!

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

The circles under his eyes are more pronounced than usual today. L slips into the Great Hall, to get himself a pot of tea. Once it arrives, he sits and pauses, to wait for it to steep. It needs to be stronger than this.

He's been pushing himself on a case the past few days. It's resolved now, but it was the first real challenge he's had since moving here, so he may have dropped off the face of the earth a little. Time to emerge and make sure everyone is still alive and well.

As soon as the tea is finished steeping, that is.

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[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Of course. You can trust Mello and I."

A soothing nod.

"I heard you went to Diagon Alley with him."

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

A gives him a thankful smile at the change of topic.

"Yes, we, we got plants. Things the nursery didn't have, things for medicines."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Which are now in your greenhouse?"

He really will have to visit.

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

A nods. "It is beginning to look very nice. It takes a lot of tending but I like it."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"It must. You're not overwhelmed?"

Faint concern.

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

"It is good that I am not getting everything at once, or I would be. But since I am getting the plants a few at a time, I do not have as much to do in one go."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"And little weeding inside a greenhouse."

Obviously.

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

"Kusuriyuri says it will be a good place for picnics in the winter."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"That's a good idea."

With all the fruit they'll have.

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

"I told him it could be a Christmas summer."

He's pleased with the joke.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"It would certainly be fitting."

They could do all this on a theme.

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

"I will be growing some tropical fruits in the greenhouse, and that will be summery. So will the flowers."

Festive indeed. No gingerbread required.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"We can bring milkshakes."

That's L's idea of summery.

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

"And I can make lemonade from the lemons on the tree. Or limeade from the limes."

He's not sure if there is such a thing as mikan-ade.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Probably. That would be nice, if there were leftover rosemary."

He liked that.

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

"There are even more herbs now. There is mint, and by then there will be ginger, cornflowers, and chrysanthemum."

If the last two can be used in tea, surely they'd work in lemonade.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Delicious."

A faint smile.

"Cornflowers are also a nice colour."

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

"Yes, and you can make dye from them as well. If I can, I will figure out a way to make ink for Matt and Mr. Turlough."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Mr Turlough wants ink?"

Odd request, L thinks.

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

A nods. "He likes to draw."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"A fitting hobby, for a groundskeeper, I suppose."

Landscape design and etc.

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

"It was his requirement, for the greenhouse. That he could draw it."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"We should be glad he did. He is obviously a relatively skilled architect, and magic can make things structurally sound that would not be normally."

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

A smiles. "That is a good idea. I want him to like the greenhouse."