the weather vane will say it smells like rain today

[lancifolium]

WHO: Lily Evans & You!
WHEN: Throughout early June
WHERE: The farm mostly for now, hopefully branching out to the woods, the trials, etc.
WHAT: A catch-all! Some farm and forest based things, maybe the trials will make an appearance (hopefully)
WARNINGS: None so far, will update as needed

( starters in comments, both open and otherwise, feel free to hmu if you don’t see anything that suits either via pm or on plurk, or toss starts my way, whatever’s clever. if brackets are more your thing i’m good to match format. )

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[somebadnews]

"It's possible. Unhalad seems to be threatened by Anurr, and apparently he's getting weaker if he can barely hold who he manages to take." They've seen that enough. While that tracks, he's not exactly sure if it's a great development. Harder to find people when they trickle in one at a time.

"Day and month?" Back to this important subject. Yes, he gets that specific with everyone. It helps to narrow down world events if he doesn't have to go through an entire year.

He considers what was going on during that time period for a moment before he comes up with the answer he gives to anyone asking. Keeping his story straight.

"I was in Dallas, Texas. November 23rd, 1963."

[lancifolium]

"June 30th, stepping onto platform 9¾ at about four in the afternoon, if you want to put a very fine point on it." She got the sense he did, and she wasn't going to argue with it, there always was a chance that something was hiding in the finer details. His meticulousness was absolutely one of those finer details,

"Have you found any pattern in the dates so far?" Watching him curiously she continued to wish it wasn't terribly rude to take out her notebook and begin writing furiously. Five didn't seem as though he would take very well to it. For a kid who looked about thirteen, he struck her as not being the sort to put up with a lot of rubbish.

[somebadnews]

He can't tell if she's mocking him by giving him that extra bit of information, but he takes it all the same. Anything could be relevant. The day he stops asking is the day he's given up on fixing this, and that's just not going to happen. Forty-five years hadn't broken his resolve, two months isn't about to.

Nothing immediately stands out, but he doesn't admit at the lack of an epiphany. These things take time and he scrutinizes her a moment before he replies.

"I'm working on it." That is as polite an answer as he gives, even in his dry tone, so he must take her curiosity as genuine. It only occurs to him after how accepting she is to the possibility of time travel. "You seem to have adjusted to the idea pretty quickly."

[lancifolium]

At the mention of her adjustment, Lily looked around them for a moment, before looking back at Five rather dubiously.

"I wasn't aware there was much of a choice beyond adjusting." Time travel existed, she'd read about time-turners in school and even indulged the rumor there was one on school grounds. It was the idea of different worlds that struck her as the strange part but confronted with the apparent reality of the situation Lily had no choice but to accept that it was the case. They had all been brought to this place, and the implications of just that fact alone were huge.

"So if this is what it is, then I want to help figure out the hows and the whats of it."

[somebadnews]

His eyebrows twitch up, but he shrugs a moment later. Not that he's one to talk, but he feels like a normal person would take more than a few days to be so casual about meeting others from entirely different timelines. What that familiarity says about her is an unknown. But noted.

"By seeing who you'll run across in the garden?" That's one approach. He can almost empathize with her. If he knew he couldn't do anything to fix what's broken, he might be right where she is, trying to figure out how turnips grow in the winter.

"How's that going so far?"

[lancifolium]

Looking around the garden nonchalantly Lily turned back to Five and answered his question with a shrug. "I've met you, you've told me more than I knew before I came to the garden."

What was she supposed to do? Lily had no idea if the people in the woods were going to gang up on her again and toss her in the lake once more. It seemed prudent to keep close to where something like that was less likely to happen and try to find out what others knew - in the garden or otherwise.

"Are you always so skeptical of people?" She asked mildly.

[somebadnews]

As often the case, Five inevitably gave away more than he learned. Even expecting that, he narrows his eyes when she points it out. It's typical that he can provide genuinely useful information and still get sass for it.

"If that makes you feel better. As a general rule, I tend to question everyone who crawls out of a lake and shows up at our door." Someone has to. It's ridiculous how easy they are to infiltrate, but it's not like he trusts the people he's known longer either. He'll always insist on doing it himself. "I'm sure everyone else has been welcoming enough to make up for it."

That's not to say he doesn't believe her story. He just finds it best that she knows where she stands with him.

"I'll leave you to it." All smiles. Turning the subject to him is the quickest way to get him to go, it seems, and he starts to move past her. He's learned enough to satisfy him for now, but he leaves that door open in case he changes his mind.

"I won't be far, whenever I'm needed."