"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are." ~ Alfred Austin {OTA, tag Harry Dresden}
"O , yn cysgu hada , Archa chan 'th at ddeffro a brifio."*
It began here with those words.
In the time that had passed, Winifred had striven to renew the ease in which she'd worked the earth and coaxed seed and plant centuries before.
Green growing things were ever her passion.
She was quite proud of her efforts and, so, smiled as she turned from her thriving little garden in the park--that had started with one tiny flower at the eve of Cristes Maesse--ready to return to Hrothbert for the evening.
A flash of light caused her to glance back, in time to watch the vines, flowers and leaves shrink back into the ground.
No!
Winifred lunged forward and down, reaching toward the vanishing plants with desperate fingers-- she'd worked so hard!--and felt herself pulled along with them. Then, with a shimmer of orange and gold light, she found herself on the main street of the village looking....
...Ah.... Looking at the outside of an immense glass-walled structure with the words Haurvatat Botanical Center in bold lettering above what appeared to be the main entryway.
A pang of excitement pierced her as she gazed through the glass and spied... the flowers! Her flowers. And several trees, oh yes, and... a... a waterfall?
She ghosted through the door, eyes wide with delight, wanting to see more.
***
[OOC: *"Oh, sleeping seed, I ask of thee to wake and grow." (Welsh) Also, the village botanical center doesn't take up quite as much of the block as that one in the link, but it's not tiny. There are several trees and things inside and some of this is quite obvious from the street. Please look at the link, if you're interested, for a close enough description of what I feel this one would look like. As with anything Haurvatat related, I'm sure things will change with time/circumstances. And, as always, I'm very often slow. :)]
It began here with those words.
In the time that had passed, Winifred had striven to renew the ease in which she'd worked the earth and coaxed seed and plant centuries before.
Green growing things were ever her passion.
She was quite proud of her efforts and, so, smiled as she turned from her thriving little garden in the park--that had started with one tiny flower at the eve of Cristes Maesse--ready to return to Hrothbert for the evening.
A flash of light caused her to glance back, in time to watch the vines, flowers and leaves shrink back into the ground.
No!
Winifred lunged forward and down, reaching toward the vanishing plants with desperate fingers-- she'd worked so hard!--and felt herself pulled along with them. Then, with a shimmer of orange and gold light, she found herself on the main street of the village looking....
...Ah.... Looking at the outside of an immense glass-walled structure with the words Haurvatat Botanical Center in bold lettering above what appeared to be the main entryway.
A pang of excitement pierced her as she gazed through the glass and spied... the flowers! Her flowers. And several trees, oh yes, and... a... a waterfall?
She ghosted through the door, eyes wide with delight, wanting to see more.
***
[OOC: *"Oh, sleeping seed, I ask of thee to wake and grow." (Welsh) Also, the village botanical center doesn't take up quite as much of the block as that one in the link, but it's not tiny. There are several trees and things inside and some of this is quite obvious from the street. Please look at the link, if you're interested, for a close enough description of what I feel this one would look like. As with anything Haurvatat related, I'm sure things will change with time/circumstances. And, as always, I'm very often slow. :)]