Open: And they're gonna bend their branches down to lay their fruit upon the ground

[vineleaves]

Dionysus is in a kitchen, apron tied over a purple dress with vine details, singing to himself as he uses a melon baller to scoop out a watermelon. The large bowl next to him is already full of honeydew melon and cantaloupe, and he's got a few other ingredients nearby ready to add in once he's done with the watermelon. Mint leaves, some honey, some lemon juice, and some lime juice.

It has been quite an eventful time lately, but overall his life is pretty great right now.

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[sporesprouter]

She laughs and applauds. "Very impressive."

[vineleaves]

"Thank you, thank you," he says, taking several bows while laughing.

[sporesprouter]

"Of course. I can make vines, but not out of nowhere and they definitely don't turn into grapes."

[vineleaves]

"How do yours work?" You can't be a vine god and live in the same (admittedly large) house as someone else who can make vines and not be at least a little aware that it happens, but he doesn't actually know much about her to know really any details about it.

[sporesprouter]

"Oh! I don't know if you've seen what I wrote on the welcome table, but it's adding water to verdant spores from the sea I grew up on."

[vineleaves]

........Okay look, does Dionysus read? Yes, a lot. Does he read things that aren't plays or books about plays? Maybe not. "How fast do they grow?" he asks, very interested.

[sporesprouter]

"Extremely fast."

[vineleaves]

"Not going to lie, I'm very curious to see, if you'd ever be up for showing off."

[sporesprouter]

"I'd take you to my workshop right now if we weren't making a fruit salad."

[vineleaves]

"Well, how about when we're done? If you don't have other plans already?"

[sporesprouter]

"When we're done is fine."

[vineleaves]

"I'm very excited! Thank you, dear!"

[sporesprouter]

She nods with a little smile. "You're welcome."

[vineleaves]

"You know," he says, scooping the last bit out of his half of the watermelon, and switching gears to start combining the honey and the lemon and lime juice, stirring it with a spoon as he talks. "It's so weird that we've both lived in the same house for so long and yet hardly ever run into one another."

[sporesprouter]

"It is a pretty unusual house, at least."

[vineleaves]

"The unusual-est."

[sporesprouter]

The Sorceress's tower flashes into her mind for a moment. "I think... when a house reaches a certain level of unusual, it's hard to say one's definitely more unusual than another. It's definitely a very interesting kind of unusual, though."

[vineleaves]

"That's a good point. At what point does the scale of unusualness just devolve into a ... a mess..."

[sporesprouter]

"I don't know and I'm pretty sure I'd rather not find out, really."

[vineleaves]

He laughs. "Seems like quite a subjective thing to try and map out anyway."

[sporesprouter]

"Definitely true. Unusual for one person is absolutely normal for someone else."

[vineleaves]

“As, I think, everyone here will agree.”

[sporesprouter]

"Absolutely. If it's something you didn't know already, it's definitely something you'll learn here, anyway. Especially if you come from a world without water seas."

[vineleaves]

"So there's not any water at all in the seas?"

[sporesprouter]

She shakes her head. "When I got here, the lake was the most water I've ever seen in one place in my life. Our seas are just full of the spores."