<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b3/Chester.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Chester Thorne (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=207204.msg10249840#msg10249840)<br/><strong>Cabin:</strong>Dionysus<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Lake for Swimming<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>Sept 25, 11am<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Mariam<br/><strong>Notes:</strong>Wearing green trunks<hr/>Chester didn't need to be told twice. The moment Mariam had started moving, he'd released the canoe and swam in after her. Climbing up onto the dock behind her, he snagged a towel and rubbed it over his head not bothering with much more than that except to drape the thing over his shoulders. He might have been smiling like an idiot as she grabbed his hand and tugged him onward but there was no one paying enough attention to be able to report it anyhow.<br/><br/>The pair of them found their way to the forest easily enough though Chester couldn't take credit for getting them there. He was mostly no help between sneaking appreciative looks Mariam's way and trying not to step on rocks. Shoes had admittedly not been on his list of things to do when he'd gotten out of the lake. For the most part he didn't mind anyway as Chester did enjoy his own sort of relationship with nature. It was true he did not have the all encompassing influence a child of Demeter might but his abilities did extend beyond vines when he needed them too. He might be a goofball around everyone else but when it was just him and the plants he was almost a different person. Peaceful. Perhaps that was why the Dryads tolerated him and perhaps it was why he reacted the way he did to the curly haired plant whisperer.<br/><br/>Chester was just coming to the question of where exactly they were going to go in the forest when Mariam decided she liked the look of two particular Oak trees. At first he didn't see anything particularly advantageous about the spot but that was before she grinned over at him and instructed him to watch.<br/><br/>Curious he watched with no shortage of awe as she began pouring power into the trees. He couldn't exactly see it but he felt it, an extra thrum of energy that hadn't been there before as well as the sounds of the trees bending to her will. "Wow. Fancy. I feel so special." He said with a grin of his own as he moved closer to her, his arms slipping around her waist as his body fit to the back of hers. "I am up for a lot of things," he replied near her ear, his lips dropping down to press against her bare shoulder briefly, "but you're not the only one with gifts you know..."<br/><br/>He closed his eyes then, not moving away from her as he reached down into the earth with his power. It took a moment--or maybe he was just enjoying being pressed up against her still damp but so soft skin--but at the base of one of the trees vines began to grow, slowly at first but then picking up speed as the vines thickened and grew higher and higher to drape over a branch above the level of the bed she'd made. As it dropped back down toward them, smaller tendrils began to snake along the thicker vines, weaving themselves into something that slowly became recognizable as a ladder. One sturdy enough to support them both as they climbed and that could be pulled up once they reached the top.<br/><br/>Letting go of his own power, Chester's eyes opened and he released her reluctantly, his fingers trailing over her waist for an extra lingering moment before he finally gestured to the ladder, "After you, beautiful." He'd owe an extra special offering to his dad after that little showing but watching Mariam with heat already simmering in his blue gaze and a devilish smile starting to curve his lips he figured it was worth having to swallow that bitter pill for her.