The Garden, Thursday Afternoon

[glacial_queen]

After a class, Karla went back to her room and changed into Morton's old cast-offs. Between the heavy content of today's discussion, the rapidly fading memories of the previous weekend, and the radio's reports that 'Dite was leaving--which would explain her message asking Karla to meet her at the store later--she had a lot to brood over think about. And now that the ground was thawed enough, Karla decided to skip the roof in favor of spending some quality time in the gardens. She could be useful and thoughtful at the same time with the guarantee that she'd feel better when she was done.

Ten minutes later, she was muddy, with dirt under her fingernails and over her face and already feeling a little better about everything.

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[glacial_queen]

Karla was going to go the mature route and pretend to gag onto one of the plants nearby. "Well, if that's not the most horrifying thing I've heard in awhile, I don't know what is," she declared. "I wonder if they're as obsessed with babies and sex and--NOW I CAN'T UNSEE THAT! UGH!"

[momslilassassin]

"Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww," Ben replied maturely. "That's so...ewwwwwwww!"

[glacial_queen]

"This is all your fault!" Karla said, throwing a clump of dirt at Ben. "I was so much happier not knowing about that possible future!"

[momslilassassin]

"I had to tell you," Ben said. "I couldn't just keep that to myself."

[glacial_queen]

"Because you're mean like that," Karla declared. "Mean!"

[momslilassassin]

"You love me anyway," Ben declared.

[glacial_queen]

"If you say so," Karla snorted.