When Leof came through the entrance, she stopped.
She stood in the courtyard entrance and looked at everything in it before she moved forward.
The previous wreckage caused by Hild and Mod.
And the garden, Beadu's garden, significantly taller than it had been before the afternoon began, the vine extended two feet across the courtyard stone still pointing toward the timber target at the far wall, the two flowers sprung open, the herbs taller and bent sideways at their tops.
Leof looked at all of this for a moment.
Then she looked at Beorn and Aestrith.
"Was all of that from the others?" she said.
"Correct," Beorn said.
She looked at the courtyard for another moment, taking stock of it patiently, thorough, giving herself the time.
Then she moved forward, toward the garden, where the vine shoot began.
Aestrith moved over to Leof, stopping a few feet back from the garden, between the girl and the wall.
Beorn continue at his position on the courtyard and checked the ledger.
