blossoms and bumbles

The other woman's demeanor was as bright and sunny as a warm spring day, and her voice was chipper and filled with delight. She introduced herself as Ellara and explained that the echinacea and feverfew she was tending to had been growths transplanted to the gardens to cultivate. "Well, it looks like you're doing well so far! I'm Syanna. Always nice to meet another healer who makes use of the gardens." Ellara came closer to her then, and where once Syanna would have bristled at a stranger coming closer to her in wild lands, she had healed and grown a lot thanks in no small part to the Hallows and Ezra's efforts.

The other fae dwarfed her in comparison, but her gentle nature showed no signs of threat, so Syanna remained at ease. Taking note of her basket, Ellara correctly sussed out that she was here to harvest the bounty of the gardens as well. "I am! I'm a healer for the Hallows, the pack just down the hill from here," she explained, gesturing broadly back in the direction she had come, to the castle by the sea. "Auster will be going into its winter season soon, so I wanted to gather up as many of these blooms as I could before the rains drown them all. We use quite a lot of them when we tend to our patients." Was Ellara familiar with the Hallows and the services they offered?

Syanna's emerald gaze followed the rosy eyes of Ellara out over the vast gardens with a smile and a slow wag of her tail. "They are indeed! It's a lovely communal garden, and it's where we collect most of our herbs from that we don't grow ourselves. Are you new to Auster, Ellara?" Even with the greenhouse, there were just certain plants that grew better out amongst the gardens. That was probably why she imagined these communal gardens wouldn't remain public space for long.

"Syanna"