A Teacher, A Student

Tristan was hard at work, hunched over his desk with his green hair falling haphazardly over his shoulders. Before making herself known, Absidae watched him; he was so enthralled in what he was doing, so determined to make everything perfect…it was attractive to her. He's good looking, to be sure…I know that's wrong, he's my teacher…but there's just something about him…Sid shook her head, banishing the thoughts, and cleared her throat. 

The young man looked up, and smiled. "Did you have any problems finding anything?" She shook her head, gesturing to the small pouch she was carrying. "Excellent. Let's make sure you got everything we need," Sid moved towards his desk, and gently laid out each and every item that had been on her list. "All right, so we have: the root of a fyirthuin bush, the petals and leaves from a dragons' lilyac, and the dewvera berries from a flowering dewvera bush. Excellent work, Absidae," Tristan smiled up at her over his glasses, which she had noted he wore when reading. Sid blushed at the compliment, avoiding his eyes. "Now, I need you to extract the oils from the root and the berries, do you think you can handle that?" Sid nodded, and took her precious plants over to her work station.

Tristan watched her, meticulously working and turning back to her books and notes to make sure that everything was done just so. She looked so calm, so intrigued, so right sitting there, just a few feet from him, working on the same thing he himself had come to be so passionate about. Sid was passionate as well, Tristan noted to himself. Passionate about trying her very best at absolutely everything he had asked her to do. Sketch all the plants she would need to know for potions and salves? Sid did that, in greater detail than her mentor had been expecting. Review the plants in the garden that could be harmful when mixed with others, based on the diagrams Tristan provided? With the exception of a few wrong answers, which was to be expected from someone just starting out, she had done that as well. The young lady shocked him, in more ways than one.