Generation 8 - Chapter 12

We eventually learned that GG Wind wasn't going out late at night to meet with clients. She had been taking care of a young, injured horse. It was the same one that always seemed to be where ever she went. Apparently it had scraped up a leg and gotten an infection. GG had been nursing him back to health for the last month!

Late one evening she came home on his back and announced that we were going to keep him. 

Where are we going to keep him, wondered Cherish. The yard was 

small and what space they had had been converted into a garden. She immediately got scared that her garden plot was about to become a horse pasture

Fatima was overjoyed! What little girl didn't dream of having her own horse? Esp one that spends all her free time riding a pony spring rider??

 

Great Grandma Wind did not miss the look of panic and hurt on Cher's face. She took her aside and promised that her garden plans hadn't changed.

"We don't own a large yard, but there is a lot of space between us and our neighbors. They've already said it was fine if the horse uses land off our property. First thing in the morning I want you to start moving your plants outside and I will personally set up the watering system for you. How does that sound?"

The weeks flew by after that. Cherish's plants were thriving and she still had plenty of room for more. She decided it was time to visit the shop her neighbors had talked about. She was excited about the idea of growing new and exotic plants no one else had.

The place had an odd smell to it. like a combination of incense and....age? Does age have a smell? She felt like she was stepping back in time when she went through to doors. Or stepping into a movie. There were only 2 people inside. The man behind the counter that looked like he'd just stepped off a navy boat in the 50s and an old, hunched woman muttering to herself over some books.

Cherish nervously looked around. There were odd things floating in liquid inside dusty old jars. Books with strange writing on them that seemed to glitter. On a rack behind the clerk were bottles that glowed and fizzed or smoked. 

"I..I..um, do you...sell plants. Here?"

"Of course fairy. Along with many many other things. Are you sure you're in the right place?"

"Ye-yes. Can I s-s-sseee the plants?"

Cherish left the store with several strange looking mushrooms to plant and a number of unknown seeds the clerk recommended.

"They're perfect for fairy such as yourself. They'll grow for you like no one else."

And they did. In no time at all she had a garden over flowing with plants. Trees even! A lot of which she still didn't know the names for or even the use of. But using the fairy magic she had discovered inside herself, they were flourishing.

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Bonus

Wind going for a swim. DV is SO pretty!