Alexa ooh'd as she wove through the reeds and hopped over a stone while her father answered her question. He knew from someone else teaching him and figuring it out on his own. She wondered who could teach her about all the things... Oh! of course! Him! Wait he didn't know everything? She thought grown-ups were supposed to know everything!
She watched him introduce her to a plant called lavender! It was purple! Just like them both! He pushed his nose into it to smell it and lay down in front of it. She tilted her head at him as he talked about teaching her to collect it but needed to preserve the plants.
"Yeah! But how preserve?" She asked, inching closer to the plant herself. She finally got within sniff range she pushed her nose far into the leaves of the strong smelling plant. Oh!! She smelled this before! Mama dragged her out of it by the scruff and dropped her bad. Telling her she needed to find something else to do.
She shrank at the memory and scuttled backward suddenly, eyes wide and looking up as if waiting for someone to grab her. Oh... right. Mama's not here.
"She didn't like it when I smelled flowers..." She whispered, glancing at Fenix, wondering if he was going to pick her up and throw her somewhere.
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