Calm

"I know this sounds a little strange," I mumbled while we sat on the ground, legs dipped into the flowing river, the chilly liquid lightly brushing against our skin. "But I have a question." 

"Go ahead," Altair said, smiling at me before handing a bowl full of cherries to me. "Here you go." 

"I missed them," I said, taking a cherry and popping it in my mouth, it certainly is just about as good as I had it the first time. "How did you even get these though?" 

"Well …" He nervously scratched the back of his head. "You've loved them even fifty lives back and I had been working to get a plant here." He pointed to the walls with little branches sticking out of the concrete. "It's in the walls." 

"Is that … healthy?" 

"I don't think so?" He shrugged. "But I cannot tell because the only time it has been able to grow this significantly is in the walls. 

"I must have tossed a seed there by mistake and look at what has happened."