There was something nice, something peaceful about the greenhouses.
She’d gravitated toward them rather predictably, begun the process of reorganising as per her own tastes - and by theme and which plants really got on, rather than by stages of learning - and made them her own, and she had been proud of her progress, content with carving out the space for herself while continuing to revolve around her friends, there for them as and when they needed her to be.
Now, she was just…tired. And she found herself in Greenhouse Five - now the home of the deadliest of her plants, and those primarily used for poison - without thinking, trimming samples and harvesting seedpods mindlessly until she sat on a stool toward the back of the house, a death cap mushroom cradled in both her hands, running her thumb over the velvet-soft frills of the underside thoughtfully.
“Oh Charlie,” she murmured to herself, pondering the problem of her almost-brother-in-law and the noxious poison that was his influence on her niece/sister/daughter.
“Dear, impulsive Charlie. What are we to do with you?”
Bellamy was never as good with plants as she was at drawing them, but they did provide peace to her. The rich colours most of them had were fascinating to analyse. Nature was the most beautiful thing in the world in her mind. She had many a drawing book filled with drawings of plants at the various stages of their growth.
She wanted to draw the different plants in the Greenhouses to give herself something stress free to focus on. Bellamy had been unaware that Aerwynna was going to be in the Greenhouse today. Grimacing involuntarily at the mention of Charlie, she still felt unsettled by the mention of him. “Can we not talk about him?”