I13DT: Pruning

The Estate's meticulously kept gardens, including a hedgemaze that students have occasionally described as "sadistic" and a sizeable rose garden. Benches in shaded spots are plentiful, and the gardens are popular to study in on pleasant days.

I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:02 pm

You'd think mazes would be slightly less challenging when you're seven and a half feet tall, but whelp. Anastasiya had found herself lost for some time.

"Who has been designing this? This is terrible," she groused, marching through.

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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Valdis Hallsdottir » Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:02 am

Valdis was also wandering the maze, looking a bit lost herself.

"Hello? Is someone else there? Oh, good." She walked over to Anastasiya, glancing all around as she did.

"Do you know the way out of here?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:35 am

"I am afraid to be not knowing this, yes? This maze, she is difficult."
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Valdis Hallsdottir » Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:43 am

"No kidding. The things these British do with their time, cutting zigs and zags into a field of shrubbery." She shook her head.
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:44 am

"They said it would be relaxing.

Apparently, they said wrong."

She stretched out a bit.

"I have not seen you around, no?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Valdis Hallsdottir » Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:55 am

"No, I'm very new here. My name is Valdis Hallsdottir, and you?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:59 am

"Anastaysia Volkoff, at your service."
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Valdis Hallsdottir » Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:02 pm

"Nice to know I'm not the only one who is apparently far from home." She looks like she's part jötunn. "Can you see clearly over the top of the hedges anywhere in the maze?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:48 pm

"It is difficult--they seem to have people of my height in mind when they constructed this. Is upsetting."
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Valdis Hallsdottir » Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:49 pm

"Indeed." She pressed a fingertip to her lips in contemplation. "Better lost with someone else than alone, I guess. I haven't tried this way yet." She pointed toward a third path leading from the junction, one that neither of them had approached from. "How about we go this way?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:15 am

"Works for me. THere must be a way out--there was a way in, after all."
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Valdis Hallsdottir » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:45 am

"Very true. I just wish that I had started leaving some kind of trail as soon as I walked in." She grabbed a branch from one of the shrub walls and tore it off, then set it down in the middle of the path they were walking in. Considering how well the maze was kept, even that snapped branch stood out as a marker.

"Now we can at least know if we're backtracking or walking in circles. So how long have you been here?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Wed Feb 26, 2014 2:31 am

"The maze, or the university?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Valdis Hallsdottir » Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:32 pm

"How about both?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:43 pm

"I first came to the university several months ago, in hopes to start new life.

It only feels like I've been in maze for equally as long."
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Valdis Hallsdottir » Thu Feb 27, 2014 11:32 pm

Valdis tore off another branch and left it in the middle of their path as they continued on.

"I see. What are you studying?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:11 am

"I am on a physical education scholarship. So...what is word, chiropractor, yes?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Valdis Hallsdottir » Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:31 am

"Not sure I have heard of that. What does it involve?"
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:05 am

"Knowledge of muscles, and of skeleton. Health, and taking care of body."
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Valdis Hallsdottir » Fri Mar 07, 2014 1:25 am

"A lot of biology, then." She dropped another small branch in their path. "If this plan doesn't work soon, I say we force our way out of here."
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Re: I13DT: Pruning

Postby Anastasiya Volkoff » Fri Mar 07, 2014 1:29 am

"That would be simple," Anastasiya said, cracking her knuckles.

She definitely looked like she had the muscle for it.
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