Someplace we can de-stress a little... Yeah, I've got just the place. C'mon, Charlie!

[ he's happy to show charlie this, let her see something she never would have otherwise. and as he leads her through the garden he points out things of interest, things he could never forget no matter how many eons had passed.

but a part of him also sinks with each step, with each new sight he can share. it's so much the same, so much with so many memories, that by the time they reach where he's leading her, he almost expects to see the first humans to walk out of some nearby brush.

he feels a profound melancholy about it, about how things had been and could have been if heaven hadn't done what it had done. he still doesn't regret giving humans free will, but that doesn't mean the memories of adam and eve smiling at him with genuine love and wonder even after he'd spirited lilith away, of what adam had twisted into becoming later, don't haunt him.

anyway! his demeanor is still upbeat and as cheery as anything when they reach a small pool in a clearing, with lush flora all around. he drops to the edge of it and holds out his hand for charlie to sit next to him. ]

The most relaxing place in the whole garden.