30th of Winter, 512 AV
Lapis Park was always a stunning place for Aria to go. She had been only rarely throughout her life but every occasion she was present, she remembered the scenery acutely. Even in Winter it was gorgeous. The large gem landmarks stood out starkly against the white landscape, highlighting the snow they sat by and reflecting off the ice around them to leave shimmering designs on nearby surfaces.
The Konti girl had been seated at the same bench for the past bell, mystified deeply by the stones before her. The designs kept her attention upon the ice, leaving her awed by this small instance of incredible beauty in the one untamed park Riverfall had.
It was a cold, clear day for sitting in the park. The cloudless skies had good promises for the rest of the season to come. Winter was one of the more lovely times of the year when the landscape was frozen white and when wind brushed across the tall grass covered in snow, it revealed the yellow of dead stalks and brown cattails still frozen as well as carefully tended poison ivy kept in controlled groupings further from the benches. What Aria knew of poison ivy, she suspected the gardeners to have kept it because of the colours it changed to in the Fall. It usually changed colours first and the few leaves that remained on it were a dull red against the revealing snow.
She was alone on the bench that day. People who walked by, also idling their time, let her have her peace. She was grateful for that, although she could admit that the blank face of snow did allow her to feel a mite lonely. Not that she would complain. There were a few birds and rustling rodents deep in the grasses to keep her company.
Lapis Park was always a stunning place for Aria to go. She had been only rarely throughout her life but every occasion she was present, she remembered the scenery acutely. Even in Winter it was gorgeous. The large gem landmarks stood out starkly against the white landscape, highlighting the snow they sat by and reflecting off the ice around them to leave shimmering designs on nearby surfaces.
The Konti girl had been seated at the same bench for the past bell, mystified deeply by the stones before her. The designs kept her attention upon the ice, leaving her awed by this small instance of incredible beauty in the one untamed park Riverfall had.
It was a cold, clear day for sitting in the park. The cloudless skies had good promises for the rest of the season to come. Winter was one of the more lovely times of the year when the landscape was frozen white and when wind brushed across the tall grass covered in snow, it revealed the yellow of dead stalks and brown cattails still frozen as well as carefully tended poison ivy kept in controlled groupings further from the benches. What Aria knew of poison ivy, she suspected the gardeners to have kept it because of the colours it changed to in the Fall. It usually changed colours first and the few leaves that remained on it were a dull red against the revealing snow.
She was alone on the bench that day. People who walked by, also idling their time, let her have her peace. She was grateful for that, although she could admit that the blank face of snow did allow her to feel a mite lonely. Not that she would complain. There were a few birds and rustling rodents deep in the grasses to keep her company.
