the harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun
Deimos wrinkles his nose and Amhran smirks down at his plate in turn; clearly the complaints invoke a very different set of circumstances for each of them, and like it or not, the Raeling has been able to act as much a child as he likes in the time since blooming in Evie's greenhouse. "Of course," he says of his now-impending visit with Rae. "I hope so too. And once it is Leafchange again, I can plant another lily for next year." The passage of time still seems strange to him - crawling by and flying by simultaneously, he can still remember planting last year's bloom.
Making a mental note to go and visit The Climb soon to check on the lily's progress, Amhran comes back to the here and now just in time to hear the most important part of his conversation with Deimos - dessert. "Perhaps cookies, if there are any left?" he wonders. "Oh, I saw someone selling snowcones shaped like ningo the other day. I would have asked for one, but I didn't know if I'd be able to bear eating it."
Making a mental note to go and visit The Climb soon to check on the lily's progress, Amhran comes back to the here and now just in time to hear the most important part of his conversation with Deimos - dessert. "Perhaps cookies, if there are any left?" he wonders. "Oh, I saw someone selling snowcones shaped like ningo the other day. I would have asked for one, but I didn't know if I'd be able to bear eating it."
