"Thank you," she said, pleased he liked it. And she agreed with his compliment - Mona did think she'd gotten this brew right at this point.
"My grandpoppy was always crazy about his tea when I was little, and we sort of bonded over it- well, that and poker. But I started making my own ones when I was... uh, probably about fourteen? Just mixing together other teas that I'd bought to make ones I liked. And then I started trying to grow some bushes in my parent's yard and some of those kind of worked, but mostly turned out to be too much trouble. But I started saving up and I bought a van to run a tea cart out of last year." She turned around to smile at awe at the magical two-story contraption she'd been gifted and shook her head. "But nothing like this though. I never could have imagined anything like this."