All I'm hearing is a whole lot of reasons you should absolutely be on the pine needles' side. How are you going to say you appreciate forests without even appreciating the tea made from them?

[ Or some such logic; Claude holds his hands out before him with palms turned towards the ceiling like he's convincing a much larger crowd than one amused Faerghan before him. Sylvain's rescued from wherever he was going to go with that pose - like perhaps working up to some speech for entertainment's sake - by the kettle whistling which he promptly retrieves. ]

Don't worry, you can make up for it in mere minutes now that the water's ready for something far better than cabbage. We'll leave that to be something that haunts us both until it appears in the markets soon enough, and then you can add it to your cooking rotation to see what happens.