"Some children avoid certain things all the more simply because of the associate with their parents," Merlin points out mildly. He's just not making assumptions!
"But if you insist... The soil around the burning ones and the general perimeter needs to be packed and leveled, so that stones can be placed to edge it."
He'd actually already started on that, setting up a low border around the garden area, when the dome and its fiery field had appeared and given him incentive to shuffle his priorities a bit.
That said, for his part Merlin isn't thinking at all about possible connections or quality relationships. Instead, he's just taking her interest precisely at face value: a bored demigoddess looking for something to occupy her time.
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"But if you insist... The soil around the burning ones and the general perimeter needs to be packed and leveled, so that stones can be placed to edge it."
He'd actually already started on that, setting up a low border around the garden area, when the dome and its fiery field had appeared and given him incentive to shuffle his priorities a bit.
That said, for his part Merlin isn't thinking at all about possible connections or quality relationships. Instead, he's just taking her interest precisely at face value: a bored demigoddess looking for something to occupy her time.