"Me too..." She stood up, "Full disclosure.... Now, could you repeat the part of the tour where you explained how these amazingly adorable hand prints were made?" She asked pointing to the wall.

He smiled, "My grandson" he told her, "when I had lost my powers for awhile I couldn't get into my own room because I sealed it before leaving that day. He can disintegrate anything non-natural with a touch. He got me back in here, gave me a few windows" he chuckled, "I had to keep them"

Ceres smiled warmly, "I like the stain glass in them." She said touching them. She was looking at one and then she saw what lay outside. "...Is that... IS THAT A GARDEN?" She said excitedly.

"As a matter of fact it is" Eric grinned, "Shall we?" he offered her his hand.

Ceres took Eric's hand and gittily she followed him to the gardens. She ran about the garden. She loved plants. Then she noticed a newly installed flower bed.

"Hmmm... You know what would look wonderful here?" Ceres placed her hand on the fresh soil and with a pink glow crystal roses of many colours grew. "What do you think?"

As she took his hand the wall opened up and they levitated down to the garden on a plate of metal.
"They're beautiful" he smiled, "You'll have to tell the gardener how to take care of them"

"They're pretty easy to take care of. They just need sunlight." She turned to look at Eric and then spotted something among the tulips, which quickly hid when she spotted. Ceres smiled, "You must take very good care of your garden here, especially to attach a flower gnome to your garden."

"Hm?" Eric tilted his head and then turned to look at what she had spotted.

There was nothing there that Eric could see. Ceres chuckled and walked over to a raised flower bed, and cupped some water from a nearby watering can. She knelt down and held her hands out, "It's ok. Brrrrrup." Ceres said making a rather interesting noise. There was a very small reply of the strange word.

Ceres stood up and walked over to Eric, it looked like the water in her hand was slashing about on its own. "Come now, let Eric see you."

"Brrrup up." A small little creature appeared playing in the water in Ceres' hands, it was green with a yellow collar of flower petals around it's neck and wide beaded black eyes. Little shimmering pixie wings on it's back. It looked up at Eric, curiously.

Eric blinked, "... hello? Are you a mutant?" he'd never seen a mutant quite like this before.

The little guy blinked and shook it's head, flying up and hovering about nose level, touching Eric's nose and tapping it curiously.

Ceres chuckled, "It's a sprite. Magical creature/spirit. They like being in places with lots of flowers. Most of them don't show themselves to humans."

"Huh" Eric smiled, "I wonder if Violet knows about them?"

She tilited her head. Who was this.... Violet? "Violet?" She asked.

"My gardener" Eric replied, "at least I think-yeah, that's her name. It was a flower anyway" he shrugged, "I think her and Charles started dating"

"Ohhhhhh! That Violet. Charles gal... Yes, Charles's told me about her. I've never met her tho. Is she diverse in magic and magic folk?" she asked as the little flower gnome floated down onto Eric's head and sat there humming softly.

"Not that I'm aware of, she's merely very good with plants. I'm not even sure I remember what her mutant ability is, now that I think of it" he wondered aloud. He didn't really talk to Violet much, in fact he wasn't even sure if he paid her. Some people merely worked for him because it guaranteed free room and board anywhere on Genosha.

"You sure know a lot about your staff... OH! I have a great idea. How about we go to dinner with Charles and Violet. That way I can meet her and we can all have drinks together." She took hold of his hands, "Pleeeeeeeease?"

"Okay, first question: You still haven't come face to face with Charles since you found out who he really was, have you? Are you ready for that?
Second question: You mean a double date?
Third question: Does that mean we're dating?"

"No I haven't talked to-..." She turned bright red, "....Do you want to date? Because I hit you with a pretty hard with all that and I wouldn'twanttopressureyouand..." She said starting to ramble on.

Eric took a step closer to her and pressed his lips against hers to shut her up.

She swooned instantly. She pulled back after a second, "...You're one romantic Hobbit, Max."

He grinned, "So I guess that means yes?" he inquired to the fact that they were dating-officially now.

"Yes please. <3" She said kissing me back.

((lol, reread that post))

"That's what I had hoped" Eric replied happily and they spent the rest of the day having fun.

Time skip to dinner?