In Ur Garden; Up Ur Tree

[onlytolerable]

 Sophie learned her lesson during the Arcana incursion. She'd spent far too much time buried in old tomes. On more than one occasion, she'd had to be carried to bed. So now, she paces herself. She gets the same amount done as she searches in vain for mentions of past magical failures--at least they have jumping off points--but she makes time to take the occasional break and clear her head.

That  still doesn't explain why the 8 of Diamonds is seen outside scrambling up trees.

Curiouser and curioser.

Comments

[denythyfather]

"What are you doing?" Adrien asks with an amused air, looking up at Sophie from his very safe spot on the ground, Sitara's hand in his. "Shouldn't you be doing work, Miss Berthier?"

[uncutclarity]

"This is unusual," Avery says after a moment of watching Sophie climb the tree in skirts, scrambling over branches. "Did you find out that the key to solving the mystery was at the top of a sycamore?"

She only wished, really.

[diemwnt]

...Sophie Emmeline Margaux Berthier, what on earth are you doing, and why are you clearly only doing it to send Cadogan's heart into a panic that you will break yourself in half on the way down.

Don't make him actually frown at you. Let this face which is like a line be enough. There's too much on his plate without worrying about the fact she'll clearly fall to her doom if he doesn't stop walking right now and stare up at her.

[dysphoria_abounds]

Pity she wasn't wearing a skirt. He'd have loved the view.

"Should I even ask?" he called out from below.

[allthesamemask]

Is that Sophie up there. Are there other redheaded ladies who climb trees in skirts in wintertime.

Maybe there are. She's not too sure.

Still, she'll be down here squinting up into the tree and trying to figure out if it is Sophie.

[falsepretences]

He'd gone to the library first, where Cornelia Henshaw had scowled at him - really, he didn't know what he'd ever done to her - before loftily telling him that Mademoiselle Berthier was in the gardens.

He hadn't quite expected to see her from this angle, admittedly.

"...Apples aren't in season?"