The Garden: Wednesday Early Evening

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Dor ran after the flying objects, trying to keep up as best he could until he saw the tiny things dive into the ground next to what appeared to be a garden.

Then there was a popping noise followed by what Dor thought was Irene's voice shouting "GROW!"

Dor's thought was confirmed when trees and plants sprung from the ground and rapidly began to grow into full bloom. Irene must have bribed Good Magician Humfrey with something for him to bottle up her talent like that. Then again if Humfrey could put lightning in a bottle, a magical talent shouldn't be too hard to manage.

Dor immediately recongized the shoe tree and the clothes tree as the began to sprout various forms of footwear, shirts, skirts and pants. They weren't exactly what he was used to seeing but maybe since the plants took root so close to Mundania they took on some of their more recent fashions. Then there was a flannel tree also growing clothes, coats and blankets for colder weather followed by a nice fluffy pillow bush.

The next tree Dor couldn't figure out at all. Every time he looked at the trunk it seemed different and the shape would lead him to think something else and...

"Oh!" Dor said aloud and shook his head in amusement. It was a mys-tree. No one could ever figure out those things.

Dor walked around to the other side of the row of trees to find a milkweed plant with some of its pod all ready to picked for fresh milk. Next to that was a cocoa-nut tree (whose cocoa-nuts were filled with chocolate milk) a pie tree with almost every kind of pie variety you could think of and finally a...

"Cherry tree?" Dor said looking amazed. "That could be dangerous! Why would Irene send such a tree?"

Upon closer inspection Dor sighed in relief. It was only a chocolate cherry tree whose fruit had a delicious chocolate center. That was a good thing as the other variety, the cherry bomb, could have hurt someone!

Dor then picked a nice fluffy pillow, a ripe milk pod and some chocolate cherries before leaning up against the mys-tree to watch as the plants reach full maturity.

Suddenly Xanth didn't seem so far away.

[Open! Yes these are permanent additions to the garden from behind the stable and are free for people to use.]

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And he was a dork, Ino could remember that.

"Sure, I'll try a pie," she said, fighting the urge to be severely dubious about the idea of pie from a tree. "Surprise me 'bout the type."

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Dor looked around and found a boys'ngirls berry pie. He checked to make sure that girl berries and the boys were properly mixed because if they weren't eaten together the flavor would either be too strong or two sweet.

"Here! Try this one," Dor said plucking the pie from the tree. "I don't think they have these berries in other worlds."

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"What kind is it?" she asked, taking the pie warily.

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"You told me you didn't want to know," Dor said carefully. "But its very good."

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Ino had, she wrinkled her nose a bit, but took a bite.

It had seemed like a better idea before he'd told her that they didn't have the berries around here.

"It's good!" she said, once she'd swallowed.

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"See!" Dor said going over the the chocolate cherry tree. "Now you need to try some of these."

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Ino followed him, nibbling a bit on her... unknown pie. Okay, she could work with that.

"The chocolate cherries, right?"

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"Best cherry you've ever had," Dor said with a nod.

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"And you just pick them off the tree," she said, trying one. "You might be on to something there."

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"Well I'm not the one who came up with it," Dor shrugged. "It just something that evolved in Xanth and I believe was adapted by one of our magician kings."

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"You evolved your magical plants? Doesn't that, like, normally take years and breeding programs?"

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"I didn't evolve it," Dor replied. "One of our magician kings had the ability to adapt objects to his own means. He could make cherries into chocolate cherries or cherry bombs."

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Ugh. You, your world, same difference right? That's what Ino thought.

"And he picked... chocolate cherries..." Ino contemplated that. "Good choice, I think. Though bombs are fun too."

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"We have both," Dor said popping another one in his mouth. "We keep them around in case we get attacked."

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"Do you just pluck the bombs off your trees too?"

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"Yep. You just better not eat them. They explode on impact."

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That got a moment of consideration.

"...don't suppose you could get one of those here, yeah?"

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"I don't think the school would appreciate bombs being grown on campus," Dor smirked.

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She wrinkled her nose. Lame. Stupid school rules. "They'd totally let me back home."

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"Oh?" Dor asked. "Where is that?"

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"Konohagakure," she said. "Konoha, for short. It's a ninja village, so a tree that produces weapons? Would be totally cool there."