Yet that was exactly what she was made to do now. When this girl –she couldn’t even remember her name- asked Raquel to complete a mission as a favor to her, the young vampire didn’t think that she was going to be made to do gardening. She was neither told about it nor was she warned against the grumpy old lady who immediately caught onto Raquel’s ignorance and started hounding her for it.
The wealthy heiress of a private manor with an extensive backyard gave her a rough lecture on what gardening is and what all of it entails. She had drilled quite a lot of names in the span of half an hour into her head, but now when they got to the shop, Raquel noticed that even the woman had no idea what she wanted to get.
The lady stuttered and muttered certain things –mostly incoherent because of her low nervous voice- and confused both the water mage as well as the shop owner.
“I want to make my garden look exquisite, you see, um…perhaps some of um…or maybe those um…” She kept going, pointing towards the various seeds neatly kept on display. “What do you think?” Her rotund figure turned to her in hopes of saving herself from further embarrassment by putting the other amateur on the spot.
“What?” Raquel straightened up since she was really not expecting that question. “Uh, please give us some of the basic supplies? As for the flowers…” Her mind drew a blank as well. She wanted to name some of the ones she had seen commonly in someone’s garden but the trouble was that Raquel’s interest in the topic was so low that she had never even actually thought to observe how others grew their garden. “…” ‘Someone save me…’