Ariana POV
The palace grounds had to be her favorite part of the palace, other than the suite she shared with Irina and Dimitri. And Dimitri had taken all three of them to get some sun once Dr. Redfearn approved.
She did not, however, expect to find a beautiful old greenhouse, which Dimitri had turned into a place to practice his biotechnology through plant genetics, on the palace grounds. The pale green glass building housed a botanist's dream. Multiple plant specimens, many native to the Mediterranean as well as the res of Europe, filled the greenhouse, which had walkways, benches and tables, and beautiful stone fountains. Butterflies flitted around, and bees droned, flying from flower to flower.
"I remember this," Irina said, gazing around them at the greenery and riot of color as she enjoyed a picnic with her mates at one of the circular stone tables. "You somehow kept it up. And made it into a living laboratory."