#8 - Morning Gardening

Amber had changed again quickly into her casual clothes back in her dorm, though one fitting for flying, combined with Joshua’s scarf, gloves and her robe, adding her new shiny badge. She had thought about directly rushing to her friends, but the thought of quickly planting her seeds sprung onto her, and who knew if she would have time to do so later, so she was on her way to the Greenhouse first.

She bolted into the Greenhouse, followed by a few snowflakes, letting her bag plop down to the ground at the entrance, then walked briskly with her stack of garden pots and seeds towards her favourite row, the third one. Luckily, her usual spots were still free.

She placed down her pots and filled them up to the brim with soil one by one. She poked some holes into the soft dirt with her fingers, then grabbed her seeds. Which one should she put where?

The first three pots at spot 21, 22 and 23 where normal ones, so she put purple seeds into each one of them. The came her two advanced pots. At spot 24 she filled the holes with red seeds. Before she continued with her advanced pot on spot 25, she looked at her Mystery seeds for a moment longer, her eyes shining brightly. What would grow later out of them? She was really excited to find out!

She filled up the holes, then covered them on every pot up with soil, softly patting it until the surface seemed flat and firm. She nodded with content, before she dusted off remains of soil from her hands, pulling out her wand next. Amber pointed it at her first pot.

“Aguamenti!”

A steady stream flowed out of her wand, sprinkling water on some of her pots. The spell now felt like second nature to her, she guessed she had to thank the Firebelly-Geckos for that.

“Aguamenti!”

The almost dying stream of water got larger again, spraying the rest of her pots successfully.

Quickly, she tidied up her workbench, sweeping rests of soil from the ground and around her pots with a broom, then grabbed her bag and bolting out of the Greenhouse. She had no time to remain any longer, her friends were waiting for her at the flying lesson. And she had to show them her new accessory after all!

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Ezra broke out into a grin as he approached his pots and saw that his plants had grown big and strong.

One pot held the red-tipped leaves of a berry plant that he had dealt with before, so he knew that hidden amongst the leaves were little golden balls of sunshine for him to steal away. The other pot held a wriggling mass of vines that he had not grown before, but looked fun anyway.

The way the vines wiggled about with its pods, especially when he got closer.. It looked like it would be a real challenge to capture and tame.

Ezra looked forward to figuring out how to deal with it! So much so that he chose to face the unknown first.

He watched the vines react as he moved his hands around it, wiggling this way and that to escape his touch.

Ezra could not help but let out a laugh as he eventually dived at the plant in an attempt to capture the vines.

The vines just about escaped his grasp though, not that that disheartened him. He was gonna catch them!

He snapped his hand out to the left, to the right, nearly knocked his other pot off, and then finally caught the twin bean!

With something to grasp, Ezra gave it a big yank before it could escape him and he had to start again.

That didn’t quite seem enough to free the pod, so he tugged again and again. He was big and strong and he was determined to get the pod free!

Quite suddenly the resistance that he was pulling against gave in, and Ezra was left stumbling backwards with his new furpod in hand.

“Yes! Got you!” He cheered, jumping back into his spot before his workbench.

His cheeks were flushed from his effort, his hair very much dishevelled. But he was happy. He had done it! He had battled the vines and freed the pod!

What was next?

Oh right, his berry plant. That meant that it was snipping time!

Very pleased with how his time in the greenhouse was turning out, Ezra set down his furpod and then skipped off to collect some shears. He quite enjoyed getting to use the shears.

His shears collected, Ezra held them up to snip-snip the air.

Yes, those would do the job!

He turned back to his berry plant and began to cut away the leaves to free up his berries.

A pile of mangled leaves later, and Ezra had a little treasure trove of golden berries to add to his furpod. He carefully put them all away in his potions kit.

With his new treasures safe, he cleared up his workbench, put his borrowed shears back, and then headed back out into the snow.

He had a giant snowball to attempt again!

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