continuing the tomfoolery w/ @lellarps ft cherry & Azrail
Cherry, by some miracle, had managed to make something grow. Down here, where the roots of dead trees twisted up through cracked, crumbling soil. No birds sit chirping on their knobbly branches and the only real sound was the rolling wind through thick, reed like weeds... that was until the first tomato plant had begun to spring. Perhaps it was whatever life force Cherry himself brought to the land, but slowly and surely green had started to sprout from that once dry and barren patch of dirt outside the small cottage he now called home.
"I asked him to bring me flowers, I hope he does-" the cherub sighs to himself as he eyes the empty jam jar, ready to act as a make-shift vase for the flowers he'd requested from Azrail on his next visit. Visits that had become too far apart for Cherry's liking - he was going to bring that up too. With a huff the cherub starts to shuffle on his boots, intending to head out and tend to his small vegetable patch, before the sound of something takes his attention. It was distant at first, but then it becomes louder. The caw of a bird!
"Birds-!" He gasps, leaping forward and out of the door, hoping to see a flurry of plumage, maybe a red breasted robin, or something light like a parakeet! Instead, what he sees is crows... eating his tomatoes!
"No.. no no-!" He starts to worry, hurrying forward as he waves his arms to try and dispel the things but they'd made quick work of his early harvest. By the time he's close enough they do finally take flight, Quite alarmingly large birds as they swoop past him, causing Cherry to duck and slip a little. Though more than anything he'd just given up, as he plonks back on his behind and looks over at his ravished stems. "I hate it here..." he whispers, finally saying his inner thoughts out loud as a fat, juicy tear starts to roll down his cheek.