Sifting Through the Snow
Sibyl
04-22-2021, 03:25 PM
Of course she was excited to be going somewhere that promised to have so many plants and herbs for her to pick from, but she was honestly just excited to be out and about and exploring again. They had done a lot to make their cave more homey and was kind of enjoying having a consistent place to go back to every night, but now that a lot of the work she could do on their home was done she was bored. She had made a couple little excursions out on her own with just Ivy as company, but with the weather being as bad as it was she couldn't exactly travel very far. As soon as Azriel offered to go with her to this Fern Gulley place she immediately agreed and grabbed her satchel so they could leave right then and there. All the way there she had been trying to think of what herbs she'd want to collect most since she was certain that she wouldn't be able to collect them all with just this small bag to carry them back in, but then they crested the hill and they came face to face with the barren, snow covered field that apparently, at some point, had been full of plant life. She frowned at the sight and followed along behind Azriel as he forged a trail and Ivy followed along behind her like a train with ever decreasing sized cars. She peeked at the ground as it was steadily uncovered under their feet, but it was no use. Everything was dead and frozen beneath the snow and ice. She sighed with disappointment, though she really wasn't all that surprised. They both should have foreseen this, but she was just too eager to get out and go somewhere to really think it through. "Oh, it's alright," she assured her partner in crime when he apologized for the disappointment. "I'm sure it'd be lovely if it was actually Spring instead of whatever the hell this season has been." Boreas as a whole had started out so lovely with fairly decent weather, meeting Fel, setting up an actual home of sorts... And then it just kind of went down hill from there. She hummed as she looked around the seemingly empty valley, wondering to herself if trying to find anything was even worth the effort. She felt Ivy brush against her leg and nudge her to get her attention and her lavender gaze was pulled to her right. In the distance, closer to the top ridge of the valley, was a little spot of green that was almost lost to a snow drift. "Oh! Look up there! It looks like some kind of evergreen bush!" Not all evergreen bushes were useful, but if it was then at least their trip wouldn't be completely in vain. |