I started to go to Mr. Briar's every day. I was learning more and more about the foliage and plants that were near his house, around the village, and the ones that he apparently brought and planted when he moved here.
"Briar, where did these plants come from?" I asked him as we tended the herbs in the garden and prepared them for the cold weather. "You said that most of them are special, even magical somehow so, where did you get them?" I had been watching this man closely and trying to learn from him and about him at the same time.
"Well, most of them came from the city. I bought them there a long time ago, before I was banned from there."
He continued on like this was nothing at all. How could he drop something on me like that, saying that he had been banned from the city, and then just leave it at that. He needed to say more than that! GAH!
"Briar, why were you banned from the city?" I was so curious now. Even though I knew it was rude of me to ask, I just had to know.
