He only raised an eyebrow at personal project, not prepared to argue about it but still mildly worried she was doing too much. Still, he hadn’t really been going to comment on it until she started tidying things and he couldn’t help but take a closer look. He recognised a few of the books; in fact, he had put together what specifically Daffy was researching just as she began to explain it. There was a pleasant thrumming in his chest, his heart picking up with a flutter, just a fraction, at the sight of her learning all this. For seedlings in the greenhouse – on the roof – for his garden.
That lingering pause in her sentence had left him planted there, having entirely forgotten about making himself cocoa or tea. It was as much in what hadn’t been said in that moment that had caught him – it was that conversation with Evangeline at the harvest festival all over again.
He grasped a couple of the books on Daff’s lap to help her move them, though his gaze hadn’t left her face. “My garden?” Elias queried meaningfully – and if he was teasing, it was only gently; his tone was too much tinged with hopes of it being their garden for that.
That lingering pause in her sentence had left him planted there, having entirely forgotten about making himself cocoa or tea. It was as much in what hadn’t been said in that moment that had caught him – it was that conversation with Evangeline at the harvest festival all over again.
He grasped a couple of the books on Daff’s lap to help her move them, though his gaze hadn’t left her face. “My garden?” Elias queried meaningfully – and if he was teasing, it was only gently; his tone was too much tinged with hopes of it being their garden for that.
look ANOTHER beautiful bee!set <3