Garden, After Classes

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

It was after class and guess where Cassidy was. Go on, guess.

Currently she was in the far corner of the garden, trying to decide what to do with a really big boulder that looked out of place in the garden. There were a few indentations in the side of it and she was currently trying to figure out if someone would be able to widen and deepen those indentations into shelves for her. It could make a very interesting bookcase for her books, or it could hold her plants and tools.

She was cleaning out that area of the garden of weeds and debris, but her attention kept going back to that boulder and the possibilities therein.


[[OOC: Open garden is open]]

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[genesishero]

It was... kind of bad that Evan hadn't actually known there was a garden until Raven had mentioned it in the library yesterday, wasn't it? Especially since he was always on the lookout for quiet places to sit and read, and a garden seemed as though it would be exactly that.

And that was why he had some reading material with him today as he went wandering the dorm grounds in search of the garden. The garden which, he was kind of embarrassed to realize, he'd passed by fairly often while wandering about with his nose stuck into a book.

"Oh. So that's where it is."

Well then.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy had sensed someone coming into the garden, and she turned with a smile to greet whomever it was.

"Hello," she said in her usual friendly manner. "Isn't it a beautiful and peaceful place?"

[genesishero]

"It kind of reminds me of my Ma's garden, back home," Evan decided, giving the area a look-around before turning his smile to Cassidy. "It's been very well tended, too," he added, taking note of the soil on her hands from her weeding and tidying up. "Was this all you?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"I didn't create or start the garden, that was done before I arrived, but I've been giving it a lot of my attention for the last two years." She smiled at him. "I'm Cassidy."

[genesishero]

"Evan," he greeted, smiling a little more. "My friend Raven mentioned you yesterday, actually. She said you spend a lot of time here."

Which wasn't to say that he'd come actively looking for a new friend or anything.

Honest.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"It's nice to meet you, Evan." Cassidy grinned a little more wider. "Raven. Oh, she's such a sweetheart and an amazing person."

Cassidy liked meeting new friends.

[genesishero]

"She's very understanding," Evan added, nodding a bit more. "I met her my first week here, and I try to get to the library whenever I can, now. Especially since the summer is almost over."

And, you know, in the wake of all that had gone on last week.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"She was one of the first friends I met when I arrived here. I'm going to miss her when she leaved." Cassidy tilted her head, excitement in her voice. "So you like books a lot, then?"

[genesishero]

"I read whenever I get a chance to," Evan replied, glancing down at the textbook in his hand. A study on divergent evolution that he'd almost walked by in the library, except it had jumped out at him.

... Literally. He wasn't complaining or anything, but the library did seem to have a mind of its own.

"I like learning," he added. "Or just... getting away, for a bit. You too?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy nodded emphatically. "I love learning anything that I can, but I also read to escape, too. I've discovered so many new things form the books in this world."

[genesishero]

"Oh, yeah?" Evan smiled a little as he found a place to sit, there in the dirt. "What sort of things do you like reading about?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

She smiled and sat down with him. "Well, the fairy tales here are quite interesting, though I do not like how they always make the witch the evil person. Oh, and space travel! I love learning about that. Going beyond the stars seems like magic in its own way."

[genesishero]

"Space is pretty neat," Evan agreed with a nod. "The one time I was up there, it was because someone had hurt one of my teachers and we needed to get something to help him get better, though."

Battling the bouncers of a high-tech alien casino. Totally a noble cause, right there.

"And fairy tales... they're kind of a product of their time, I think. They're not really about how witches are evil, so much as they're stories that are meant to teach people to be more... considerate, or to stop expecting the world to be an easy place to live in. You could easily adapt them for any culture, I think. Just fill in the blanks with your own world's equivalent of the bad guy, or that person who you're afraid of because you don't understand them, you know?"

Like mutants!

... Ow.

[solarhippie]

Karolina had just gotten back to Fandom after a week in LA for meetings with various kinds of social workers (and before that, a week of not existing in Fandom, but she'd done her best not to think about it) and as far as this was from home, she was kind of glad to be somewhere where she didn't feel quite as awkward about being open about her powers.

She may even have come up here with the intention to maybe go flying. But that was at least temporarily forgotten as she noticed she wasn't alone. "Hey," she said, as she wandered over to the garden. "I didn't think there'd be anyone up here."

In hindsight, she wasn't sure why.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy looked up with a smile from the trench she was digging around the big boulder.

"Hi!" Sorry, Karolina, she loved meeting and talking to people. "Were you looking for a place to be alone with your thoughts?"

[solarhippie]

Karolina smiled a bit too, if a little shyly. She didn't really have anything against meeting new people, either.

"Uh, not really?" she offered. "I just –– I'm not sure why I did't expect to see anyone, actually."

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy smiled again, brushing her hair back from her face ... it would fall back again in a few minutes.

"I'm Cassidy."

[solarhippie]

"Karolina," Karolina replied, smiling a little more widely. "Hi." She'd already said that, hadn't she? "So... Do you come up here a lot, cassidy?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"It's nice to meet you, Karolina." She nodded. "I like working in the gardens and working with the land helps me to relax and settle."

[solarhippie]

"Oh?" Karolina looked curious, and actually looked around the garden now. "What do you grow up here? Is it just flowers, or maybe, like, vegetables too?"

Eco-conscious vegetarian. Hi.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"Flowers, plants, fruits, vegetables..." She grinned and bounced a little. "Anything we can make grow."

[solarhippie]

"Cool!" Karolina enthused, grinning right back at her. Entirely sincere, too. She'd been pretty into the idea of guerrilla gardening back home, so it was no surprise. "That's awesome. I had no idea we even had a garden up here."

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"Few people seem to," Cassidy said with a smile. "I found it because a friend told me when I first arrived where it was. If there hadn't already been one, I probably would made one."

[solarhippie]

"That's so cool. Do you have one at home, then?"

She had a lot of questions. She could've actually added a couple straight after that, but refrained.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy nodded cheerfully. "Oh, yes. I can't imagine not having a garden nearby. Do you like gardening, too?"