branches from a dying tree / joining

[Margaery]

[glow=GLOWCOLOR,2,300]▶ MARGAERY FOLIE - tags - THE ASCENDANTS - OBSERVER - SHE/HER- FELINE ◀[/glow]

While she was slightly disappointed that she could not inhabit a room with a window, she refused to let that show upon her face. She had just arrived here, she was exhausted, and she was not among friends from her old clan... seeming unappreciative seemed like a bad idea. Besides, paintings weren't so bad, right? She could bring her room to life with flowers and images of the things she once loved, reminders, painful almost in nature, that they were nothing but memories now. That was, if she was even permitted to paint in her room. If not, she supposed she could live next to unfamiliar artwork, there was beauty in everything after all.

Yes, there's beauty in everything but you lack the means to appreciate any of it, Her mind halfway taunted, causing her face to twist. Why could she not feel anything except for sadness, regret, and disappointment? Why could the simple things that once made her light, alive not bring her the same joy? Did she lose the very capability to feel when her bond had been severed with Suiteheart and her powers lost? Did that mean that, no matter how hard she tried to live normally with no thought towards the past, she'd always be this thing? This hollow, broken thing?

[color=black]"Anything you can give me will be fine," She finally managed, dismissing her thoughts before they grew powerful enough to consume her. [color=black]"As for building, I would not be opposed to helping," She offered with a slight nod. It'd distract her, keep her busy enough so she wouldn't have to contemplate what was wrong with her.

[color=black]"If nobody has any qualms with me doing so, I'd like to establish and grow a garden myself. Of course everyone can enjoy it but... gardening is very personal to me."

For a moment, she was brought back to a time long ago when her garden had went up in fire. She had almost died that night, suffocating on the smoke as she fought to extinguish and save her roses. She'd ensure that nothing like that would ever happen again.

[color=black]"Thank you, by the way. It's been a long time since I've interacted with anyone much less in a clan setting, if I can even call it that. It'll be good for me, I think, to be among others again," She confessed.