fandomhighdorms | Tuesday Morning

Cassidy had made her way up to the gardens again. It didn't matter to her that it was already starting to get warm and sticky out. The land needed love no matter how you may or may not feel.

She had dressed in another borrowed pair of trousers her brother didn't know he had lent to her and a mostly short-sleeved blouse. (Someone might need to take this girl shopping at some point.) She was careful to put cream on her arms and face so that she didn't get a horrible sunburn. She learned a long time ago how much sunburns could hurt and how she was prone to them with her fair skin and red hair and freckles.

She managed to get her unruly hair tamed (in a way) into a thick braid down her back and then set off to work among the plants. There were gardening implements nearby, but for now, she preferred to work with her hands. After putting shields around both of her hands to protect from the dirt and the plants, she put a light shield around herself and started happily moving about the dirt and plants.

[[OOC: Oh so very open.]]

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Ino had to work today, she did.

But that didn't mean she couldn't spare some time to take a detour to the gardens, right? Right!

"Ah ha," she said cheerfully as she spotted a new girl. "I knew there was someone else working in the gardens."

Look, Ino was the one that had planted them in the first place. They weren't just hers any more, of course not, but Ino still knew her way around the garden very very well.

Cassidy looked up and gave the new girl a smile. "I found them the second day I was here and just couldn't stay away."

"Who could stay away from a garden?" she teased, wandering over and looking curiously at the ~~visible?~~ shield. "That you couldn't means you've got good taste."

Cassidy shook her head, "Not me. I never have been." ~~The shields are invisible but someone who can sense magic might be able to sense they are there.~~. "I've always been drawn to the land even before I could walk." She smiled. "I'm Cassidy."

Hayley herself was exercising her tomboyish instincts that day, and had gone exploring because she had so little time left to explore the island. This led to her discovery of the gardens, where she ended up in a tree.

Not, like, 'surprise, you're in a tree' or anything; she'd climbed up it of her own free will.

So Hayley peered through the branches down at Cassidy and spoke.

"What're you planting?"

Cassidy looked around for the voice and then finally spotted the girl in the tree.

"Nothing much yet. I'm just clearing out weeds and making sure the ones already growing here are healthy."

Ino's frown showed only in the slight crinkling of her eyes. It almost felt like there was something there? But nothing appeared to be there and she wasn't exactly going to pry with someone whose name she'd just learnt.

"I'm Ino," she said, offering her hand to the girl to shake, should she want to. "You wanna explain a bit what that means for poor clueless me?" Her eyes sparkled with amusement.

She sat up so that she was on her knees in the dirt and not on both her hands and knees. She wiped her hands free of dirt and then shook Ino's offered hand. "I highly doubt you're clueless," she grinned.

"My magic ties me to the land," she explained. "Where I'm from, Queens heal the land and its people. Of course, with me, it's also just that I enjoy being in gardens and working with the land. If I'm upset or stressed about anything, the land can help soothe that within me."

Now, where had she heard some of that before...

"You from Karla's world?" Ino guessed, hands going behind her back as she grinned. "'Less it's another world? That sounds similar?"

Which was possible!

"You're making sure the weeds are growing healthy?" Hayley joked, wondering if she'd be safe to just jump down out of the tree. "That's some crazy gardening, if you ask me."

Cassidy grinned back. "You know Karla!" She nodded. "Yes, I'm from a territory back in her world."

Cassidy laughed. "That would be an interesting way to garden."

"I always liked dandelions," Hayley said. "Not that you got them in Gotham much. Never really lived places with lots of areas for gardens, until now."

"Most everyone knows Karla," she said, amused. "She's a bit of a butterfly, that one."

Ino meant that in the nicest way possible, of course.

"You finding it weird here?"

"Kiss kiss." Karla's voice was amused. "Is there room for another Queen, do you think? Or should I wander off and try to find another garden?"

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Karla was also dressed in cast-off clothing. She had a wardrobe plenty big enough, but when it came to tasks where getting dirty and sweaty ~~not like that, omg~~ was inevitable, they were the perfect choice.

"That's hardly sneaky," Ino commented, glancing up and over. "You rustle the branches too much."

"Dandelions are pretty, but they can also damage the more fragile flowers." She tilted her head. "I can't imagine not having access to a garden."

Ino really ought to, you know, get to work--but she could always stay later to make up the time.

"I can't speak for Cassidy," Ino noted, giving Karla a wave from where Ino leaned against one of the trees, half shaded and not particularly visible until she'd spoken. "But I think it depends on how you are at sharing."

Cassidy grinned. "She's pretty great, isn't she?"

She brushed a strand of hair that had escaped her braid back from her face. "It's a little... different," she admitted, not wanting to be insulting. "I'm trying to adapt, though."

Cassidy gave her a welcoming grin.

"Karla! Good morning, and you are always welcome in any garden. There is always room for another Queen."

"You ask that after I gave you my own drink at my birthday party?" Karla asked with a mock-pout. "I'm hurt, Ino. Possibly to the point of tears."

She sounded so broken, yes.

Karla turned to look for Ino. The other girl's psychic scent has told Karla she was nearby (or, at least, had been until very recently), but that hadn't made her easier to spot.

"Don't say that too loudly," Karla said in a stage-whisper. "I hate to admit it, but there I know of a few Queens that my gardens wouldn't have room for." She settled herself into a comfortable spot, close by to Cassidy, but far enough away where neither witch would be in the other's way. "Of course, most of them are prissy aristo Queens who couldn't handle something more than a little ornamental garden or a flower box," she said, snorting.

"Well that's cause you've never lived in a real city," Hayley said. "Not that they got much going for them. But you get more motorcycles and leather jackets, which are nice."

She sat down on a branch. "Plus you can't hear Elvis unless you got electricity, right?"

Logical thread of conversations be damned.

"Well that's cause I'm hardly sneaking," Hayley said. "I'm no criminal or nothing. No matter what people might say."

She harrumphed a little harrumph.

Cassidy nodded while she went back to clearing some of the weeds out from the flowers she was working with this morning.

"I don't think I'd be very welcoming of someone like that," she admitted. "I would try as Protocol demands, but..."

Because gardening was something she was very passionate about.

Edited 2010-06-15 16:56 (UTC)

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