After her happy homecoming, Elise spent her morning helping Ichigo get settled in to the barracks before letting Pita and Moltar take the new healer off for a bit of training with the other guildies. They still had a schedule to be keeping with.
In the afternoon, after cleaning up some overgrown weeds in the garden, she retreated from the heat of the summer sun to the cool of the guild hall. She was a little surprised to find Astredian in the kitchenette preparing a pitcher of lemonade.
“Well now, I do like seeing a man in the kitchen.” Elise said, smiling a bit as she wiped her forehead with the back of her hand - and smeared herself with dirt from the garden.
“Is that why you let Pita do all the cooking?” Astredian said, smiling his familiar faint smile. Then, he leaned over the islan
