December 2, 2023 – 11:55 PM
Tiger had decided to bring along his kids to find a good tree for their home. They had all dispersed as some saw friends from Hogwarts, sweets or hot chocolate. He had been left with instructions to find the biggest and fluffiest tree he could find. Granted, they could have done this on their own land but Tiger had been craving the sense of community that tended to come with events like this. And seeing his children happily running around with their friends told him this had been the right choice.
He was walking along the rows of trees when he came across someone who looked like they were having a bit of a struggle with their chosen tree.
"Are you all right there?" Tiger asked jovially as he made his presence known.
December 28, 2023 – 9:20 PM
Evangeline Rowle — Played by Steph
Strictly speaking, Evangeline wasn't really intending on cutting her own tree. She had brought a servant for that. She did know her own abilities better than to assume she could--or should--do this herself.
That had been her intention. But the poor fellow had cut himself--nothing too dramatic, but apparently she'd brought the footman with an unfortunate tendency to faint at the sight of blood. Marvelous. He'd been seen to, and sent off, and now Eva was still here, looking at the tree she'd picked out, and thinking about going to all this effort just to settle for something pre-cut was galling for reasons she couldn't really articulate. Possibly, she was too stubborn for her own good.
That thought felt a bit too close to admitting quite a lot of people were right, actually, so Eva was ignoring it, which was the only real explanation for how she ended up with a saw in her hand, trying to work out what she was doing. It couldn't be that difficult, surely. People had been cutting down trees for as long as they'd been making things out of wood, presumably. If they could all figure it out, so could she.
That said, she had made very little headway before someone came upon her. "Fine!" she called out, sounding much more out of breath than was probably necessary to make that sound convincing.
January 25, 2024 – 6:01 AM
Personally, Tiger felt the young woman probably would have been better off getting one of the pre-cut trees that were also available. He wasn't about to judge her though - perhaps she had thrilled at the thought of handling an axe - though she was holding a saw. Many of the women in his family could definitely handle cutting their own tree but this woman was not dressed for such an endeavour so even if that had been her goal, she was still clearly not a practiced hand at it.
As predicted by the writer before me, Tiger was not entirely convinced. Besides that, she was a tiny little thing with a saw. Those two things did not tend to match well when it came to trying to fall a tree the size of the one she was gnawing at. "Perhaps you would have better luck with an axe? You can borrow mine," he suggested.
January 25, 2024 – 9:48 PM
Evangeline Rowle — Played by Steph
Evangeline relaxed a little. "Oh. Yes. Thank you." The saw was much more useless than she'd expected it to be. In fairness, she really, really didn't know what she was doing. Still, that wasn't going to stop her, so she held out her hand for the man's axe. "I wasn't planning to do this on my own," she said by way of explanation. "So I might be less than perfectly equipped."
