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In this town we call home

WHO: Lerith

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WHERE: Around Temba
WHAT: Harvesting
WHEN: Well before the storm
WARNINGS: N/A

The weather was turning a little cooler and Noctis decided to get outside. So he started wandering because he wasn't busy fishing or hunting at the moment. While out, he had seen quite a few plants that were ready to harvest. So today found him looking at the different ones, deciding which ones he was going to take back home because there was a Shield to feed.

Kneeling down, he reached a hand out and looked at one of the plants that had quite a harvest ready. "Guess it's a damn good thing I took Agriculture." He'd taken it because food and the king was definitely a fan of food.

"Only problem now is that I just gotta figure out how I'm gonna get it home."

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It's growing colder and while his fire magic does nicely to keep him warm, Lerith still keeps his sweater on for an extra layer of warmth. It keeps the breeze off of him at least.

Even though Temba isn't Thedas, Lerith knows that things will be ripe for picking and they could be used at the diner! So he's hunting about and using his old scarf to carry what he can find. What he finds is surprising because it's not herbs or plants to harvest, but Noctis!

The elf grins and snaps his fingers to let the other know he's there, then fishes out his communicator to have it speak for him.

'You won't find fish here, Noctis!' Jon's voice speaks for him.

Hearing the snap got Noct's attention and he grabbed his communicator. The king laughed and shook his head. "Just out foraging for food since hunting has been a little tough. But what brings you out here?"

This is just him being a concerned friend.

And then he noticed the scarf so he nodded. "Guess you're out here for the same reason."

'It feels like a good time to start harvesting things to use at the diner. Maybe to grow in the greenhouse if there's seeds.' He also wants to study them, because that's what Lerith does. Something to do, to keep him out of the trouble that can find its way into the city.

Lerith makes his way over to Noctis' side to squat down next to him. The scarf is opened in offering, then set down so he can type so Jon can speak for him. 'We can share my old scarf to bring in what we harvest. If there's more than the scarf can handle, we can use my new one Miss Lark gave me,' and he indicates it with a pointed finger.

Noctis listened with the communicator and nodded. "Grabbing seeds from them's a great idea." And then he moved to his side and grabbed a little pouch, holding it up to show that was the plan here, or one of them at any rate.

Once Lerith was next to him, and explained what he was doing, he smiled. "That should be a good start." He did look at the scarf indicated and smiled. "I'm sure they'll both come in handy."

So the king nodded. "Let's get started."

'I liked studying herbs back home. In Thedas. They're used for healing and potions. I used to think that I wouldn't be able to really make potions like I want to, but since mages make the best... I think I will try.' Especially if Reeve was going to help him. Is helping, to be more precise.

'Are you looking for anything in particular?' His hands carefully move through the foliage, looking for anything that looked like it had some potential. Some are picked and dropped onto the scarf.

"Healing potions here?" Noctis asked, brightening a little. It recalled his conversation with Radley to mind, about helping here. "Can I help?"

He didn't want to mention the part about where he'd be using his own magic to help, and he hoped it still worked. That was something he hadn't tried because there weren't any stores of spells in the rocks here. But if he could still somehow infuse his own magic to make the potions more potent to help others out, he'd do it. It would give him more of a purpose to be here along with the fishing and hunting he already did.

But Lerith's words shook him out of those thoughts.

"Uh no nothing in particular, just food really."

'I don't know if there's any potion making going on here. I only know of it back in my world. But I want to try here. I don't know if it would work, since I don't know how any of these plants work with each other.'

Hm. Maybe he should take on the medicine data whenever he was done with the plants learning. He could possibly take notes, use the point, and then use what he had to make potions!

'There's plants for food in the house of greens, but there should be more space for others if we can find seeds. Do you grow weary of what Tommy makes in the dinner?'

The king nodded. "What do you need in order to see if they'll work together?" Noct would use his skills both magically and with what he kept learning about agriculture to assist if he could.

But at the question, he smiled. "I'm learning from someone how to cook on my own." That gave him a thought. "Do you know how to do that?"

Lerith had to think for a moment. Most of the herbs and their effects were written down in books he could get from Solas or Miss Josephine. But here? The herbs were all a mystery. 'A strong stomach I suppose. I wasn't entirely certain how to test them, though I'm sure there's probably a way to find out about them.'

He tilts his head at the question. 'I'm not much of a cook. I can roast meat and that's about it. Everything else I at home I would just get from the tavern. Which I suppose is what the diner is here. Who is teaching you to cook?'

The king nodded. "Well I take agriculture so that might help out a little. I can see what can be done there." Naturally Noct wanted to help his friend and that might help speed the process up at least as far as he could.

Listening to Lerith talk about roasting meat made him hungry. He was about to ask if Lerith could teach him to roast meat because he knew he and Gladio would appreciate that one. But at the question, he smiled.

"A guy named Radley. I've told him that he needs to teach classes. I can only hope the guy took me seriously."

The elf seemed to brighten. 'I have agriculture too! It helps with growing things, even if I haven't had time to study them yet.' It had been on his mental to do list, but with everything that happened in the city (and off it, really), it was difficult to keep up with that list. He could be doing that now, really, but being out here with Noctis was at least nice. Quiet, too.

He picks some more to add to the old scarf he had once used, and sits back. 'I don't think I have met them yet. I am guessing they are a nice person?' He thinks of others who were nice that had been sent home. It still mentally stung, knowing they got to go back home and Lerith was still stuck here, but he kept it from showing on his face. 'Why do you think he wouldn't take you seriously?'

Noct smiled. "Agriculture is great, helps to know what to eat or not eat." And that was the angle he went for. Of course it aided him in his fishing endeavors as well because he knew what to go for and what not to. So it came in handy all the way around for him really.

Regarding Radley, the king nodded. "He's a really great guy and he's a pretty patient teacher. I think you'd like him." Noctis couldn't imagine Lerith not getting along with anyone really, but that was his own personal opinion. But at the last part, he shrugged. "He said he'd consider it, but saying things and doing things might be different."

'I wish I had this back home. I would not have to try and get books to study!' He grinned at the thought of it, of impressing everyone in Haven with how well he could deal with herbs and possibly make them into potions. A nice little fantasy of course.

'I wonder if I could trade signing lessons for cooking lessons.' More things get added to his pile in the scarf. The mute wonders if Noctist meant to disregard his question about why Radley wouldn't take him seriously. Maybe it was something the man didn't want to talk about? If there were things that the mute couldn't talk about, surely there were topics for humans, too.

He shrugs at the remark. 'Maybe if the people that keep us here stop giving us things to do, like going to other worlds or dealing with plants, he'll do the actual teaching?'

The king laughed. "Well if this were back home I'd have the same thing, and probably wouldn't have any interest in it." Because he would leave all of things like that to Ignis. Still, this gave him an appreciation for all of the hard work the Royal Advisor had to go through.

There was a smile. "Now there's a thought." Noct would offer to help pay the bill in food but he figured Lerith would turn him down and that wasn't something he wanted. But if it came up, he'd offer.

Noct nodded. "You know, setting up to be a teacher would suit you. But I'm sure Radley will say yes. He has the patience like you do to do it."

Lerith gathered a few other herbs and dug a little at the ground for something else that was peeking through the soil. It gave his hands something to do for a moment before he could answer.

'I have actually been meaning to start up a class to teach others Sign. More people here know it than I would have thought, but it would be nice not to have to use this thing to talk to others.' Granted, the elf was accustomed to it at home, though with ink and a journal, instead of a device that could actually speak for him. He blinks at the remark.

'Do you think teaching would be good for me? I'm... so skittish I don't know if it would be good as a full job. I thought of being something herbal or potion making related at home at one point.'

Noctis smiled as he listened. "Hey if you don't want to do it for anything other than language you don't have to. But I just think you would have the patience for it more than anyone else I know."

The only possible exception was Reeve but that wasn't going to get a voice.

At the last part he nodded. "You can be my teacher for herbal stuff. I'd be happy to learn."

Lerith rubs the back of his head like a worry stone. 'All of the herbal things I know for Temba are from the agriculture glowing point.' A little shrug. 'I could probably show and tell you what the Thedas plants do that I plants in the greenhouse. Like elfroot is good in potions for healing. They can make a good salve too, for things like burns I think.'

He would have to review what he knew at some point.

'On the topic of teaching, maybe I could teach a small amount of people to get a good grasp of it, and to help with teaching a bigger amount of people?'

"I take agriculture too, but it's more of a food thing for me." Hey he was honest. "I've tried making potions before but they never seem to work. But I'd totally be down for a good lesson because I can go from there."

His magic still worked, he could feel it. And he did have swords in his Armiger too so it wasn't like it was gone from him. He laughed a little. "Can't say healing ever interested me."

The king then looked at Lerith and nodded. "It's your call, I just think you have the temperament for it."

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