Sun Mote Copse The Art of the Dinner Date

"Well, the story told that evergreens stay green, because they were humble and did not demand for a constant change," Wraen added a quick ending to her story, sensing that this was not of particular interest to Sugar Glider. Which was true. It did not have much scientific facts behind it, just a good old fable-style story about, how you should never wish for too much. 

"In truth, however, they are vastly different from the trees that lose leaves. Maybe it's the smell - all of them have a particular odour that tells them miles apart from other trees," she pointed out. "And their leaves are different and there is that sticky stuff..." she walked around one of the princesses, seeking for a little trail of sap to show her pupil. "Here it is," she scrunched her nose at the pungent odour and beckoned to the almost solid piece of amber-coloured substance on the tree's bark.

"Old people say that these are tears of the tree. And the story goes that, it can capture sunlight and, when it falls in the water, it turns into a bright gem-stone," she infused some fiction, where her knowledge in botany lacked. "But on the whole I think that they are simply better equipped to endure ice, cold and lack of light. Salt of the earth, so to say."