the harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun
What started as a seedling - small, innocuous, sweet, innocent - has, over the course of the past season, grown enough to almost overtake Evie's personal greenhouse. The roots burst through the pot it arrived in within weeks, burrowing deep into the earth and caring not for Halo's harsh conditions to receive its nutrients. Leaves unfurled, new and delicate, in rapid succession, and vines crept and crawled and clung to any support within reach.
Only towards the end of Leafchange did the flowers begin to bloom, though; strange shades of indigo and marigold and fuscia, seeming to change out of the corner of one's eye only to settle again once gazed upon properly. And with the flowers, a shape within the vines - vague, at first, but becoming increasingly human as the days progressed.
Indeed, by the time Evie and Deimos left for the tournament, said shape could be definitely said to be a man; tall, pale, wiry, but very much asleep.
By the time they return, though?
Not so much.
The vines are withered things now, the flowers and leaves brown and curled and spent. And within the greenhouse, the man has risen to his feet, wiggled his freshly grown toes, and opened muddy green eyes.
He looks around.
He wiggles his toes again.
Only towards the end of Leafchange did the flowers begin to bloom, though; strange shades of indigo and marigold and fuscia, seeming to change out of the corner of one's eye only to settle again once gazed upon properly. And with the flowers, a shape within the vines - vague, at first, but becoming increasingly human as the days progressed.
Indeed, by the time Evie and Deimos left for the tournament, said shape could be definitely said to be a man; tall, pale, wiry, but very much asleep.
By the time they return, though?
Not so much.
The vines are withered things now, the flowers and leaves brown and curled and spent. And within the greenhouse, the man has risen to his feet, wiggled his freshly grown toes, and opened muddy green eyes.
He looks around.
He wiggles his toes again.
