Redtail Rise Life in a bubble I blew

Her lips twitched slightly when Reek called her brilliant, a decidedly Who, me? look passing over Drag's face. She looked down at her white toes, quietly pleased, then looked up again just as immediately when he decided to test her knowledge.

"Arctium lappa," she repeated in that same breezy monotone, "is also called a greater burdock or burr for short." Her tone changed ever so slightly, eyes becoming a bit brighter and more animated—e.g., less robotic—as she added a personal anecdote: "Mother calls them beggar's buttons." Drag snorted, clearly amused at some memory or other.

Abruptly, those two-toned eyes narrowed as Dragyn peered around herself. "There are no Arctium lappa here," she said, almost in reproof. Just as suddenly, she recollected Reek's second question. "It grows," she answered simply, with a blink. What kind of question was that, anyway?