✿5 [Action]

[redstringed]

*It's night-time, and outside of Building 6 there is a young-looking gothic lolita vampire and a bed of roses.

Rachel, in an attempt to not get dirty while planting a garden, has been attempting to do the entire thing with spatial manipulation - you might see the dirt itself shift around the roses if you looked long enough. Unfortunately, it doesn

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[consultmybooks]

[Yes, Rachel, Giles is watching your moderately successful attempts at gardening. With interest. And amusement. Especially the bit about the spatial manipulation - he didn't know she could do that]

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[redstringed]

*The roses aren't moving together like she wants. Why are they being so uncooperative?! Grumble grumble grumble.*

[consultmybooks]

[It's a fascinating thing, seeing Rachel grumble. Fascinating and deeply satisfying.

Giles knocks on the wall of the nearest building in an attempt to get her attention]

[redstringed]

*Sigh. This really isn't turning out to be her day, is it. She'll just look over at him flatly.* What is it?

[consultmybooks]

[Giles scribbles a note in his journal and holds it up for Rachel to see]

Looks like it's going well.

[redstringed]

...adequately, perhaps. *She arches an eyebrow* You cannot speak, then?

[consultmybooks]

No. I'm sure I mentioned that to you.

[He glances around her at the messy rose bed]

At least they're growing?

[redstringed]

You have. I was confirming it for myself.

They are growing, yes. Given their fragile nature, one must naturally be be very careful when handling them.

[consultmybooks]

"Fragile", I think, is the key point here.

You don't look as though you've been treating them as such.

[redstringed]

What a ludicrous thing to suggest. Of course I have. Do you see me manhandling them like some brutish oaf?

[consultmybooks]

No. And that might be the problem.

You're trying to plant a rose garden, and you're hardly dirty at all.

[redstringed]

I have no fondness for manual labor, Mr. Watcher. I will not dirty my hands when some other method will prove just as effective.

[consultmybooks]

It's the "just as effective" part that seems to be escaping you.

[redstringed]

*The worst part is that he's right.* It is a learning process in its fineness.

[consultmybooks]

Have you tried the library? They must have more than a few books on gardening.

[redstringed]

A lack of knowledge is hardly the issue at hand.