Nrrgh.

[heartofbirds]

Okay, you know who is completely dead meat with this whole plothole-gone thing? Linden. Linden Kohlrabi, who is a born and bred city boy, who has never worked a day in his life as far as actual technical work goes--oh, he can dress a gentleman and wait on a lady and instruct lesser servants and make his own supper if he has to, but this is a man

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[youngandhealthy]

Berries? Molly has berries, as gathering berries is both a tasty and perhaps mildly seductive pasttime, when done correctly. Of course, between all the men she knows (we're looking at Curio), surely she's been subsisting on more than just berries... but she's found a lovely patch of early strawberries.

She waves when she sees him.

[heartofbirds]

He smiles back and heads over, on the grounds that she probably knows more about food-gathering than he does. "Dear child, how are you?"

[youngandhealthy]

"Well enough, sir, well indeed. And you?" Her fingers are a bit stained, but not her lips yet, with suggest that at present more berries are going into her basket than into her mouth.

[heartofbirds]

A slight laugh. "I've realised a troubling thing."