After another long day of Aster getting tutored, he went to go to Troll Tree, where Lake lived. He grabbed his bag, put on his hoodie and headed to Troll Tree, but before he left, he waved at his buddy Teddy, the guard a goodbye and left. The guard rolled his eyes and walked away with no more words.

As Aster finally made it to Troll Tree, he saw more Trolls singing, dancing, and hugging. Heck, even the bergens are doing the same! The grayish looking blue troll tilted his head and cocked a brow at all the bergens. He has never seen one before, ever. No bergens ever showed up in Raven's kingdom, which surprised him, a lot. Finally, he heard a familiar voice, talking and greeting friendly neighbors. Lake. Aster glanced at the beautiful blue troll, seeing her soft, long and dark blue hair bounce behind her back every time she took another step and sometimes skips around.

"Woah..." Aster looked at her as she stops and glance at a certain troll. Aster raised an eyebrow and walked quietly up to her. He hid behind a bush and saw that she was looking at a blue troll, who has the same colors as her skin and hair, but both different eye colors and hair styles. Aster could only notice that... Lake is the only troll he knows that has their hair down. She is truly one of a kind. He's surprised that no one actually think she's famous or really noticeable to anyone. But then the other male troll approached Lake and smiled widely, waving. Lake waved back. "Hi Branch!"

Branch? Who's Branch? Aster thought, and totally has a lot of questions that needed to be answered by the one and only, Lake. The blue male troll spoke. "Hi Lake, you haven't seen Poppy, have you?"

Somehow, Aster saw the look of disappointment in Lake's eyes, but it suddenly disappeared once Lake responded. "Why? Why do... you ask?"

"Oh, uh... nothing, you know, just thought of... greeting her..." he said, a bit nervously. Lake looked around for a moment, she sighed and used her hand to point at a bright pink pod next to ex-king Peppy's pod. Branch nodded and ran towards there, and waving at Lake. "Bye Lake!"

"Bye... Branch..." she slightly waved with her hand and stood there. Aster suddenly had a thought. "Is that... the guy she likes?"

He watched her leave back to her pod, somehow, he felt sympathy and stepped out of the bush, glancing at the path Lake exited. Well, she's got taste. You can't blame her.

"Hmmm..." Aster looked around, totally amazed at the beautiful sight of Troll Tree, smiling widely as he looked up at all the colorful pods. "I wish I lived here..."

He approached Lake's pod, it was a bright blue pod, decorated with dark blue flowers, looking like a belt; wrapped around the pod's body. And right there stood in front of him was her wooden door, and it had a sign that said 'Welcome!'

Aster chuckled while slowly shaking his head as he glanced down. He looked backup and gently knocked at her door with his fist. The door opened and showed Lake who was looking down with a frustrated look. "Branch, I said that she was-! Oh..."

She looked at Aster and her eyes were wide opened as she quickly fixed herself, grinning, blushing a bit of embarrassment. "Hey Aster. What are you doing here?"

"Oh, uh... I just thought of visiting you. You know, so you can have company." He smiled warmly, while Lake smiled back, brightly, her other eye slightly closing as she did so.