Snippet #2452961

Levi watched her contently as she walked over to the fountain and sat down on the edge, the look of admiration on her features warming his very heart. It felt good for once being praised for your hard work, even if it was just a smile, a look on another persons face that told him they liked it. It was so long ago he had gotten this kind of reward- mainly because Smile wasn't much company and neither was the master. Although he knew the master could be kind and even pleasant at times... very few occasions... most of the time he was everything but pleasant. Levi had a tendency to keep away from him as much as possible, thus running from himself. Perhaps that was the best way to describe him... constantly on the run from himself.

"Thank you. You care for the whole garden yourself? It's really...really beautiful. I never had a garden like this. If I did, I think I'd spend all my time in it."

The smile spreading across his features was brighter than ever before, his eyes alight with appreciation of her words. Levi had always loved beauty, always appreciated being surrounded by it. Even if the house he now loved him truly was not beautiful when the illusion no longer lasted- even if the garden too returned to its true state during those hours... simply were hideous, cold and scary... Levi still loved it when he was surrounded by beauty. He had always done so. Not even Leviathan could deny their love for beauty... even if he found himself to be hideous, both inside and out. It was true that he had cared for the garden himself, it was not a lie at all... but it was still an illusion, for in reality nothing could grow there anymore. Everything was gray...dead.. and without hope. He hated this place so bitterly during night time- when the spell was broken and the truth of the monster was revealed.

"Well, you do have a garden now..." Levi said softly, tilting his head to the side after she'd accepted the rose as he watched her with soft, kind, mismatched eyes, "this is your garden... and you may do whatever you like with it. If you would so wish, I could teach you how to care for a garden. Of course, if you do not... I would understand, naturally."

"Is there a bird table? I always wanted a table to feed the wildlife at."

"No," Levi replied after a moment of hesitation, "there... is not. Would you like there to be one?" he asked curiously.