Sun Mote Copse what you gon' do

It helped that he could work on something while he waited and overthought what he would say in his head. He glanced up from the garden a few times when he thought he saw someone, but it was just a bird or a flash of something else each time. Of course, by the time that Niamh actually showed up he had been digging out some very-dead-plants that he had given up hope on and was so absorbed into this task that he didn't see her coming until she was almost there. Niamh instantly started fussing over the garden, which he hadn't expected at all, and it caught him off guard a little bit.

Hey, he said. Niamh continued to talk about the garden, and Eljay nodded with a frown. Some of them, but most probably won't. It'd take a lot of time to revive this. It was more Weejay's garden before the flooding, but lately... Well, it's no wonder. Not only did children grow and change, but also the garden was a mess - no wonder she wasn't as interested lately.

It would be so easy just to talk about other things right now, instead of what he had called her for. But he also felt that he had to do this thing, just so that he would have a clean slate with Niamh. He owed that to himself, but he also owed it to her. He didn't want to feel bad about what had happened every time he saw her. It had to be done. I uh.. How's the boy doing? he asked, even though he full well knew that because he checked up on Rasalas regularly himself.