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Flowers are blooming at an incredible place across the city and sometimes barren patches of grass can be overrun with flowers overnight. There have been heavy showers and a high pollen count but there doesn’t appear to be any other explanation. It is not uncommon to find trees with nearly double the leaves they usually have, with vines twisting up houses, flowers covering the front yard, or local fruits to have doubled in size. There doesn’t seem to be any negative effects to this; scientists are questioning climate change.
To say her parents were irritated was an understatement. Generally Liliane was left to her own devices when it came to the inner workings of the household. Her mother ran these things the way she wanted to and woe betide anyone who changed anything about it. In the Benson household if something was cleaned away it was to be done by the matriarch, otherwise you soon found that your items went missing and it would be a century before you found them again.
Keys. Cutlery. Paperwork.
Liliane's mother had a system and she knew better than to disrupt that, so when she'd heard her mother ranting in frustration it was something that was cause for alarm. It wasn't often that she heard it and more to the point, less often that she heard her father grumbling in annoyance too. For such a tranquil household it had suddenly gotten quite loud and out of curiosity the red-head did the only thing logical in this particular moment... She went to investigate.
Setting the sapphire star charm she'd received the night before onto to her desk and donning her slippers, she moved down the stairwell and briskly towards the back garden where her family had gathered. A bit of an odd place to say the least, but perhaps the flowerbeds had flooded during the night? She'd been woken up several times that evening by the sound of thunder, and then a further few when the rain had spattered against the windows so loudly that she had been forced to close them. She'd just about managed to save most of her notebooks from the onslaught of water that time, but she'd sooner not risk it again.
Her pace slowed and she stepped out on to the steps to find that the flowerbeds hadn't flooded, quite the opposite in fact. They were absolutely thriving and it was in those moments that Liliane came to realise why her mother was particularly exasperated. She was rather partial to her rose garden and as it stood it was looking more like a jungle than the carefully groomed and pristine archways that the Benson matriarch had taken such pride in.
A further step into the garden and Liliane turned to check each of the other flowerbeds.
It was then that she saw it.
No wonder her father was frustrated, the ivy that had spun delicately up one side of the house had completely covered it. In the space of an evening of heavy rain they had gone from one of the most stereotypical neat gardens in the street to something else entirely. In an odd way it was quite pleasing to the eye, but in the grand scheme of things this was going to be a lot of work... And on her father's part, it would take a lot of strategic causterizing of ivy to put the house back in to a presentable state.
Was their a knight or senshi of chainsaws anywhere, maybe even weedkiller?
She coughed gently and clapped her hands together as she continued to gaze up at her home. Honestly, worse things could have happened to them. The house could have fallen down under the weight of the ivy for one thing, but instead they simply inherited a jungle.
"We're going to need something bigger than your normal pruning tools," Liliane remarked as she flashed a smile to her parents. "Maybe something just a little bigger, like one of those big chainsaws on poles!"
...Somewhere in the midst of her musings she could vaguely hear both her parents protesting. There would be chainsaws near those roses and the brick walls over their dead bodies, but something did need to be done.
What Liliane did know for certain was that she wouldn't be leaving the house for any extended period of time today, not until they'd at least made some progress in restore their garden to order.
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