her smile brightens and she nods as gonzo says he understands, as if it’s really not that hard to understand magic as someone who doesn’t have it. plus, he even lives on the isle! a place where there’s no magic at all, or there used to be none. she doesn’t really know if that’s changed, she just knows that everything here feels sort of dead and cold, maybe allie’s glad that she hasn’t come here before and alone. not only would she get lost or hurt, she would have to deal with the empty feeling that the dead, shriveled up plants around her bring.
“ oh, i do have a garden! it’s, like, my favorite thing in the whole world! ” a dreamy sigh left her lips. sometimes she finds that her garden is easier to deal with than people, than her friends. which sounds kind of silly now that she thinks about it, because she doesn’t have to water or tend to them. but she does have to care for them, or at least she wanted to. which was similar, she supposed. it’s strange, because plants were friends, but friends weren’t plants, obviously. they’re too much human, not enough greenery. “ sometimes it’s a bit hard to keep up with, but i don’t mind! it keeps me busy, and i really really like plants. i get it from my mom, cause’ she’s a garden fairy. ”
allie tilts her head to the side curiously, “ it could be anything, there are, like, a million plants besides flowers. good ones and bad ones. well, not bad ones, but just … more dangerous ones. like poison-y or ones that have thorns. ” has he really never seen any plants before? she understands the flower part, because she hasn’t seen any flowers on the isle during the brief times she’d been on it. and she knows that they wouldn’t survive there. so him never seeing any flowers makes sense, but plants? she swore someone had said something about a forest, and that’s at least trees, probably grass and moss too. “ have you never seen, like, any ferns? or moss? or even trees? ”
the fairy girl beams as she sees his amusement flourish, she even made him laugh! she wrinkles her nose slightly at his words, but she’s still smiling. “ ew, i hate gloves. which is pretty stupid i guess cause’ they could solve, like, all of my problems. they’re just so … fancy feeling, constricting too. ” she shrugs, “ i guess it’s good then that i’m not you, cause’ i’d like totally just burn my hands off. ”
gonzo’s face shifted away from the amusement that had once been there and allie frowned, “ it’s just a fairy thing. all these stupid, bad things happen to us because of all of the cool stuff we can do. or, i guess, normal fairies can do. i can’t do much. ” the small frown gracing her features doesn’t last long before she perks up again like a puppy. “ did you know that if you pour sugar or salt in front of a fairy they have to count it all? like, by the grain. every single one. it’s so stupid but really, we can’t resist it. ”
𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲, content as she pondered on her flower garden and gonzo couldn't help but smile at her. having something that brought you happiness was important, while the rest of the world might seem foreboding, it was nice to have something familiar and safe to fall back on. it was how gonzo felt about the forge. no matter what path he was on, he always found his way back to it. ❝ that's cool, ❞ gonzo said encouragingly, ❝ it sounds like you really love it. ❞
gonzo listened to allie as she spoke about the different kinds of plants it could be, he had a faint idea of just how many existed thanks to noelani but he never really paid close attention to it. he never really had to. the most lively plant he had contact with growing up was the moss in the corner of his old cell back in the horned kings dungeon.
❝ right, yeah . . . lani has some of those, the dangerous ones? i think most of the plants that grow around here are dangerous but you have to actually go find them because uh, most of the isle is — you can't grow anything. ❞ gonzo finished uncertainly, ❝ i've seen moss! the trees in the wilds are more like dead skeletons than what auradon has and . . . are ferns those ones that kind of — ❞ gonzo put his hands together side-by-side and spread his fingers out trying to immitate a plant he had seen in auradon once but frowned as it looked more like a bird. ❝ sorry, allie. i really don't know anything about plants. ❞
gonzo snorted when she explained part of the reason why she didn't like to wear gloves, ❝ fancy? what kind of gloves have you been wearing? mine are massive, they make me look like a cartoon character when i wear them. ❞ gonzo said, ❝ yeah, no one wants you to burn your hands off. i'm keeping you away from the forges. ❞
though by the sound of things allie probably hadn't had any intention of going to the forge if metal was such a problem for her. ❝ well, i haven't met any other fairy's before so i don't know if this counts but, i think you can do a bunch of stuff. like, you keep a whole garden of plants . . . i can't do that. ❞ gonzo offered briefly before allie's excitement made him blink, ❝ wait, seriously? so if i threw some salt on the ground you'd have to count it all? not that i'm going to do that. ❞
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