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"Didn't really plan much else," Donovan added, "This is just our chance to get away from the other kids... the ones connected to the school and not adopted by Kara. The students are a bit much these days."

He had to grumble at that inside because of all the paper work the stupid students tended to generate.

Donovan humph at that comment of Ulrich, "Be it as it may, like I said as long as it's peaceful here," he tapped the table top, "I don't care. Compared to our last few trips this will be a walk in the park, or it better be. I'm starting to think we attrach trouble at this rate."

Ulrich was motionless for a moment, his face expressionless. Then he said, "Depending on how this evening goes, it may not be peaceful for long ..." Then he looked up at Donovan and added, "I don't know about what other trips you've taken, or what other kinds of trouble you attract ... but by being connected to Elnara and Serenity, you're connected here to a family that thrives on trouble - they attract it like a magnet. So ... while you're in this world ... expect it." He shrugged apologetically.

Ulani was glad Kara wanted to help out in the garden - it wasn't that there was a lot of work to do, or that she needed the help ... but rather, no one else in the valley liked working in the garden, and she would be more than glad for the company.

"Do you have a garden of your own?" she asked the angel curiously.

Kara paused a moment out of her conversation with Ulani to butt into Donovan's, "Are you still sore about the vampire incident?"

Well she shouldn't have been surprised, they never did get the vampire and the townspeople probably thought they were dead or something. She turned back to Ulani and looked a bit thoughtful.

"I manage the greenhouse back at the school, but I have yet to start my own garden, I mean..." Kara amended, "I haven't lived where I am now for that long, it's only been a bit over a year so this will be my first year having a garden to myself. Previously I lived in the city, and well... there's no room for a garden there."

"You know..." Donovan paused for a moment pretending to be thoughtful, "I'm the only one allowed to be a pessimist here," he told Ulrich with a straight face.

He wondered if Ruel put Ulrich in a bad mood, or the attack those six years back had something to do with it, because it seemed like whatever Donovan said he would turn around and make it doom and gloom. While Donovan was use to being paranoid, seeing as that was part of the job description, it was something else when someone was acting paranoid for him.

Ulrich laughed. "If you insist," he allowed Donovan graciously, grinning mischievously. It was odd, he mused, how he had been so much the same fot over three thousand years - and now suddenly he was changing.

He dismissed the thought. It would do no good to dwell on it.

"Though I'm sure you're optimistic about some things," he added, still grinning.

Ulani nodded to Kara. "More and more people are leaving the cities to live in the forests," she murmured. "And while I do on one sense consider that to be a good thing ... I also fear that someday the valley might not be ... ours. Not the way it is now."

"I leave that to Kara," Donovan replied back gruffly, "She's just about optmistic enough for several people."

He was prepared to be whacked, even though he knew Kara was more interested in talking to Ulani. Though he supposed, if there was anything he could be honestly optimistic about was his relationship, both as lover and slowly as of father.