Elona of the Great Green

As Magenta and Scarlet enter their Auntie’s house. Magenta’s Aunt has prepared a lovely lunch as she always does on Saturdays. There are fresh fruits from the garden that Auntie grows herself and pastries she has baked from scratch as well as salad and sandwiches all of which are usually eaten outside on the porch. But since it has begun to rain, Auntie has put a log on the fire and they eat indoors watching the water come down in soft spring drops. Magenta’s mother wears a warm smile as she and her sister have just been caught, mid conversation. “Adults” Magenta’s believes are the most boring creatures and is very happy she has missed most of what her Mother and Auntie are saying. While Magenta often looks forward to the day when she and Scarlet can sit and chat all day in the sun, she suspects they will dream up better things to discuss than the growing of tulips and Mr. Marks (one of Magenta’s Mother’s patrons) bad troupe and foul demeanor. Magenta’s uncle comes in from the “back”, a term she has grown to believe is some part of the house where only he is allowed as he often comes to lunch smelling like fresh cut wood and is covered in dust. And apparently the place is too cluttered and mismanaged for Magenta’s Mother and Auntie to “step foot in”. Possibly this is because he makes furniture as a hobby and is too passionate about his work to care about clearing the debris. Each piece he creates is a vibrant color and most of them are sold to a restaurant in the city called the Neon Cafe. Magenta has a growing pride in the fact that her uncle has single handedly furnished the entire restaurant which she and Scarlet have only been to once as the food is strange and expensive.

He sits beside Scarlet and produces a tiny blue chair for her collection of miniatures. Magenta smiles as she knows he has one in the other hand for her, in pink.

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