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had enough experience to have an opinion on that.
I’m a good gardener.
SAM: What do you grow, other than dead tea?
TALIESIN: I grow lilies, I grow bramble,
mushrooms, moss.
MARISHA: Dead bramble. Dead mushrooms. Dead moss.
LIAM: If you are saying that you are able to help
people back from the brink of extinction, on
occasion or under the right circumstances, I am
going to hazard a guess that you could heal a
wound in a snap, yeah?
TALIESIN: Not with an actual snap, but yeah, I can
do that. I don’t have to snap, though. I can be
really quiet when I do it– pretty quiet, I
actually have to say something, now that I think
about it.
ASHLY: I’m going to take a guess: you don’t
leave here very much, do you?
TALIESIN: I’ve left a few times, I suppose. It’s
been a while. I’ve been on my own for a while. It
makes you get a little rambly.
SAM: You’re stationed here? Are you allowed to
leave?
TALIESIN: That’s a bit of a story. My family have
run this temple for generations, and I’m sort of
the last one left holding the fort down.
SAM: No cousins or anything?
TALIESIN: No cousins. A couple sisters, a brother,
my parents, but everyone’s either wandered off to
help try and fix what’s been going wrong or has
been put into the earth.
SAM: What’s been going wrong? What’s that? What’s
going wrong?
TALIESIN: Well, as I’m sure you’ve possibly
noticed, and I apologize if I’m breaking some
terrible news to anyone who didn’t, the forest
beyond my little patch of earth is a little
unsavory. It’s dark. It can be a bit dangerous.
Don’t recommend going out alone. It has been
overtaking our temple for the last hundred years,
and recently has breached the walls again.
SAM: So your family is trying to fix that?
TALIESIN: The last one to leave was my sister. She
went east.
LIAM: Now it’s just you.
TALIESIN: Now it’s just me. It’s not much to hold
down at this point.
ASHLY: Why do you stay?
TALIESIN: Honestly, because it’s a little
dangerous for a lone person to leave. I figured
I’d sit here with a kettle and wait for someone to
come along, and maybe see if I can make my way out
of here and figure out what’s been happening in
this place.
LIAM: Well, you’re double lucky.
SAM: This is great. So you don’t have to check in
every night, and be here to punch in and punch
out? You could leave whenever you want?
TALIESIN: I could leave whenever I want, sure.
MARISHA: Is there a watering system, or can you
put it on a timer if you’re not going to be here?
SAM: A drip-line?