Sun Mote Copse The Art of the Dinner Date

Sugar listened attentively as Wraen talked, soaking up everything she said like the proverbial sponge. She really enjoyed the term "turbid" and stashed the word in her back pocket to unleash on someone later, perhaps one of her parents. She enjoyed impressing them with her little tidbits of knowledge.

Speaking of which, the Sovereign wanted to know what she'd learned so far. It was such a broad stroke of a question, Sugar wasn't sure how to answer. She learned so much every day, even apart from being an autodidact, simply by merit of growing up. But certainly Wraen wanted some sort of concrete answer to her question.

Plumbing her own mind, Sugar found herself revisiting the day when Eljay had connected plants with medicine. But she'd already mentioned that to Wraen. Sugar remembered something else, something a little more specific. "I'm starting to memorize plants, mostly flowers," she said, thinking of how her brother had identified the lily for her. "I have this sort of list in my head." So far, that's all it was: a catalog of flowers' names and appearances. Someday soon, she hoped she could add a third column: "medicinal uses."

I'm trying to pare down my threads a bit. Would you care to nudge this toward a conclusion? :)