It was a totally normal thing! Who among us hadn't buried our hearts in something? Adrian's was just slightly less metaphorical than most!

As for Adrian's emotional tenor, the surprise he showed upon noticing her seemed to have melted into cheer at her approach. "I have," he said proudly, gesturing at the garden full to bursting with vegetables easily double the size of what Yelena might expect, and then the stone spiral she was standing on. "Still behind where I should be, though."

"You're the one who wanted to take a week's vacation," Boston called from his tree. "Good morning, Yelena."

"I want to see more of the world," Adrian said simply.