Pendragon XIX - [Action/Voice]

[tintobrat]

Perhaps someone can straighten things out here. I've found this nice copy of Romeo and Juliet to read, since it's been some time since I was first introduced to it. However when I read about the author, it seemed to insist that Shakespeare was from some place called England, as opposed to Harmonia, as is common knowledge. I realize most of you

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[realityanchor]

[When Lilly gets home, Marica will be at the kitchen table with a sandwich, frowning at a science textbook. It has insultingly large print and a healthy dosage of colorful pictures plastered across its pages. She leans out for a look at the front door when she hears it open.]

Oh, hey, Lilly.

[realityanchor]

You think? I'll be sure to give it a try. [Doesn't sound too far-fetched, anyway.]

It's kinda funny. I didn't think I'd ever be sitting at a table trying to study diagrams of blobs like this.

[tintobrat]

I never quite saw myself here either. [Horrid, isn't it?] But I suppose it could be worse.

[realityanchor]

I suppose you're right. At least I'm... enriching my mind, I guess. [Even if it doesn't always feel like it.] I can't imagine doing this for years on end, though.

[tintobrat]

I suppose it might be different if you had grown up doing it.

[Insulting as that probably sounds, Lilly didn't intend it that way. It just makes sense to her.]

[realityanchor]

[It seems true enough to Marica.] You're probably right. My village isn't very big on books... Though we grow some pretty mean tomatoes.

[tintobrat]

[Or Marica, such an adorably quaint girl!]

I'm sure they're quite delicious.

[realityanchor]

[?

Maybe Lilly's a tomato fan.] Our tomatoes get traded all over the continent, so they'd hafta be.

[tintobrat]

[Not terribly so. But then, Tinto never grew their own.]

Farming wasn't much of a staple for Tinto. We'd import vegetables from Dunan, but they weren't always at their ripest.

[realityanchor]

That's too bad. Tomatoes are the candy of nature, as they say! And fresh vegetables are the best ingredients to a healthy kid.

[tintobrat]

I've never heard anyone say that. [They're not even that sweet!]

[realityanchor]

That's because they haven't had the right ones! It's a shame I can't bring some from back home...

[tintobrat]

Are they really so different? Maybe you just need to grow them yourself.

[realityanchor]

I have a feeling it's more than that, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try anyway... Oh, I know -- we could find a spot of land and start up a little garden! What do you think?

[tintobrat]

[We? We?]

I. I really don't know anything about gardening. [Nor do I want to.]

[realityanchor]

[We!]

That's okay! It's pretty simple. And it's a good thing to learn, don't you think?