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Mercifully Shiloh let the topic slip away, without any further inquiries. Coli bowed her head in silent relief, letting the light-furred Stormbringer lead them to another, more comfortable, subject. "I can tell you what they all do sometime, if you wanted to know how to use them," she added, noticing Shiloh's sweeping gaze and equating it to curiosity. They were all very useful herbs, astringents and antibiotics and analgesics... Except perhaps the raspberry bush and the apple saplings in the back, those were more for fun than anything else. Trade, she told herself firmly, they could trade fruits and jams and seeds. It wasn't just sentimentality, everything needed a purpose here to be shared with the pack.
Dahlia... Coli perked up, but said nothing at first. Was Shiloh making the same nostalgic association Coli was? Come to think of it, Saul said he grew up in Dahlia de Mai, that was when they first met. It stood to reason his littermates would have been with him. "Dahlias grow south of here, where my old pack used to stand. Flander's Field had all sorts of blooms, although I think that is a part of Cercatori now, the pack where Eclipse lives." She shrugged, trying to ignore the remorseful longing that the flower pack inspired in her. She had been so lonely there, and yet whenever she remembered it now, she missed it. She had to keep reminding herself that she was much happier in Vinátta, and that her packmates here had more respect for her. It was better here in the north.
"Erm... actually, I don't mind if you wanted to take a couple plants home with you. If you keep them indoors, they might flower during the winter..." That was assuming Shiloh had windows in her house to let the sunlight in, which Coli did not. Her garden would go into hibernation, the perennials only awakening when spring thawed out the ice and snow and brought them back to life. It was a long time to go without her flowers, and winter always left her rather glum for lack of inspiration. Things would be different this time around, though... she would have puppies come winter. Would they bring her cheer...? She sighed, shuffling off in the eastern direction of Jordheim so that the lovely Shiloh would follow her. She hoped her new packmate would be around a lot in the seasons to come -- she liked Shiloh so far, and she knew how much it meant to Saul to have his family close. Maybe if she plied the younger female with pretty flowers, she would be enticed to stay with them for longer.
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