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“Leola, dear? It's breakfast time” Aaravos smiles as he cuts a muffin in half for his daughter, it was Leola’s 12th birthday meaning Aaravos had been a single father for 12 years. Somehow.
Time was never a topic when he lived in the stars, they had been outside of time, yet everything around them seemed so much clearer in the void of time. It was strange to watch his ‘Little Unicorn’ grow up, slowly his first and only child grew over the years. 12 years to be exact.
Leola walked into the large open kitchen, she was dressed yet her hair was still an unruly mess of white and magenta, her eyes widen as she saw the large breakfast her father
had made for her.
“It's my birthday!” A larger smile appears on her face as she runs to hug Aaravos, almost knocking the pan he was washing out of his hands.
“Oh! It’s your birthday? Well, you must be 7, correct?” Aaravos chuckles as he feels the confused gaze of his daughter.
“Daddy! I’m 12!”
“Ah, that’s right! How could I forget?” Leola erupts into giggles at the table, already serving herself a plate of pancakes. Aaravos sits on the other side of the dining table and serving himself.
“Well, what would my little unicorn like to do today?” Aaravos watches as his daughter thinks hard.
“I think we should spend time in the gardens!” Leola loves her gardens, she would have every flower in Xadia if she could and Aaravos knows so.
“Well, I have a gift for you. I made it just for you,” He smiles and slides a box over to Leola, faster than light she tears through the box, holding up a second box, this one engraved with flowers and stars with her name on the top of the box.
“Open it,” Leola looks amazed by the craftsmanship of the box alone. Carefully she opens the wooden box, the box is filled with seeds all different and organized in separate slots with the name carved into the slot.
“Woah… there's so many!” Leola looks up, holding the box as if she held a child, in her eyes she might as well have been.
Leola eats quickly and as soon as she finishes she drags her father out to the garden, she kneels down in the grass, looking for the perfect empty spot. Aaravos sits next to her, helping the search before Leola yells happily.
“I found more space!”
“I think our next task is making your garden larger, dear,” The two laugh and Leola examines every seed before choosing a blue rose seed and putting two into the already dug soil and carefully laying the earth back on top of the seeds, Aaravos hands Leola a metal watering can shaped similar to an adoraburr. She lets the water flow onto the covered seeds, smiling as she does so.
“Now we wait!” Leola looks proud of herself as does Aaravos.
“Hopefully it will grow soon, little unicorn. Which seed did you choose?”
“Blue rose! My favorite!” Leola smiles and Aaravos ruffles her still messy hair, knowing it would be a month or so until the blue rose blooms.