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Greetings children. I hope you're all enjoying this new world. I certainly am.

So~ before we came here I was intending to create some kind of a garden behind my beach house or realistically and inevitably behind all our beach houses. Sadly, we were spirited away before that dream could come to pass. Unfortunate as it is I have hope we may return there someday.

[They better. All her treasures are there!]

Regardless if we do or don't I'd like to start collecting various seeds and the like so that wherever we may go, be it short term or long term, we'll at least have some fruits or vegetables to enjoy. Ah, I should mention my power is to grow plants super fast. Give me a seed today and I'll give you an apple in moments. Assuming that it was an apple seed, of course.

But allow me to get to the point because I know some of you get particularly persnickety when I talk too much.

First~ I'd like to at least have a list of everyone's favorite fruits and vegetables. No point in growing turnips if no one is going to eat them.

And second I need help collecting these seeds. Lots of you explore the worlds we go to. You would be doing me a great service if you bring back some of your floral findings~

And of course, I can't take without giving something in return. So if you help me gather up and form this garden you can, of course, eat from it freely. Fair is fair. If you help create it, it's yours as well as mine. So you see, it'll be well worth the trouble to help me out. Besides salads are miles better than poisonous crabs~

But if you can't help you can't help. Tell me your favorites so I can, at the very least, have something to barter with when you have something that I desire later down the road~

I look forward to your cooperation~

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[ the plant growing power - this has to be yuuko, then. waver mentioned her. ]

Apples are my favorite fruit. [ HE HAS no favorite vegetable really but he heard the word apple multiple times and dave is here for that??? ] And I don't mind keepin' an eye out for seeds. D'you think everything we can find here will grow ok back on the island? Or are some of them like...weird ocean overhead weather conditions?

[Apples! They're on the list.]

That's a very good question. I can make things instantly grow but if they'll stay alive after I've matured them is another matter entirely. To put it simply, we won't know until we try.

But maybe we can make greenhouse like areas where we can keep a certain climate about. So plants that need constant rain or heat can have it. I imagine other people might have powers that can help with this task.

Besides~ the more people that contribute the better since it's something we'll all benefit from~

I'm pretty sure my friends would also be down? But either way...we can at least try to make greenhouses if we gotta, yeah. I think between me and Rose and John we could handle settin' one up, actually?

John... is that the boy who can fuse things together?

[He would be a big help in creating a greenhouse! Think of all the things he could make with the right tools.]

So you must be one of the friends the Space Witch, right?

[She only asks because everything she's heard about Jade is very exciting and she wants to know more. As she's a space witch as well she can't help but be incredibly curious about the girl.]

Yeah, that'd be him - and yeah, Jade's one of my best friends. I'm Dave Strider. I take it you talked to John?

[ since. space witch. ]

Yes~ He made me a plastic refilling wine glass! His power is incredibly unique.

And I learned quite a bit about this witch Jade. I hope to meet her one day mostly because I've never come across another Space Witch before. Her powers sound truly amazing. Maybe because she's just a Space witch and I dabble in both Time and Space...

I've uh. Actually been holding onto a few things. Do you want me to give them to you, or hang onto them till we're no longer on this world?

You have~? Wonderful. I'll let you hang onto them until our possible return to the beach houses. I don't want to accidentally forget them if we're spirited away again. But do you happen to know what they are just so I can make note of it? If you don't I can try and find out via the library here.

Apple seeds, and I was possibly going to just get some fruit before we left so that it could be used. Berries, mostly, since they're small. I've been keeping an eye out for some kind of gardening store too, in case they have seed packets.

[Apples are on the list so that's good. And the more berries the better. Those are good for all sorts of things but most importantly digestion which will help with the strange island meat, if they ever make it back over there.]

Quite excellent. Since you're hunting down the seeds if you happen to see any rice seeds, I'd greatly appreciate them. It's a staple in a lot of meals where I'm from. It's also very healthy. I'm not sure we'll ever have the tools to harvest things like wheat to make bread but rice would be an excellent substitute for that.

The more things we can grow ourselves the better off we'll be.

Rices requires a lot effort as well, right? Especially to produce a lot.

[He's thinking of paddies, and forgetting that magic can also be used. At the very least, Waver can keep an eye out for bags of rice to barter for.]

I've found something back on the hub as well that I meant to show you as well. I found an entire field of grapes that look like it might've been a vineyard once. Do you think that'd be something useful in terms of space?

It can. So I'm quite interested in seeing how my magic manages it all.

[A vineyard, hmmm~ That sounds perfect! Making wine is a process but if they could get something started that island might just become perfect.]

I absolutely do! When we get back you'll have to show me. Maybe if the space around is open enough we can just put the garden there instead of behind the beach houses...

Sure, but uh. [Waver pauses. How best to explain this?

Well. Best to be blunt.]

Well, the grapes taste like meat.

What...?

[Say it isn't so, Waver...]

I don't understand it either, okay? It...it just is.

[But alas, it is.]

What are the parameters of your power? Just growing things quickly? Is it specific to plants?

It definitely seems to just be flora specific. Plants, shrubs, and the like. Though I haven't tried trees just yet.

If you're inquiring because you want to increase the growth rate of an animal or human... I highly doubt that's in the realm of my abilities.

[Though it probably doesn't hurt to try...]

No, actually. Although that would be an interesting experiment.

Could you, say, bring a dead plant back to life? Or is it simply speeding up the rate of growth?

I take a bit of an issue with bringing the dead back to life, plant or otherwise.

[She exists here and now because of such meddling.]

But as of right now this just seems to be accelerating growth. It's quite useful considering the amount of people we have to feed. Vegetables and fruits could be unlimited.

[He smiles.]

It is. Very much so. I was simply curious about the limitations for my own reasons.

Well now you have me curious! Will you enlighten me or will you keep your secrets~

Oh, it's not the sort of thing I'd hide.

[Implying that there are things he would hide . . . ? Anyway, he drops the smile after a moment.]

On that world we're meant to return to after we leave this place, there was an orchard. The trees weren't dead, but they were diseased and wouldn't bear fruit.

Oranges.

[That's it. That one verbose response. Oranges. He has recently met a True Orange. It's the most amazing thing. Please, please give him oranges.]

[Right to the point. She can dig it. And it's a very good fruit to have. it's full of important vitamins. And they can make juice and all sorts of good stuff.]

I like that. And orange peels help prevent ants and slugs from getting on the other plants. And the peels are also said to bring fortune and good luck. An orange tree... or several is a must.

[Dirk, previously not aware of many of these things she just said, agrees firmly.]

Several works. It's basically the best fruit.

[He remembers the bartering element, and realizes he should probably put forward things he can do.]

I'm good with mechanics and programming. Or sewing.

You can sew...?

[That's a very important skill. Especially for her. She's looking to rebuild her wardrobe that was regrettably left behind back in Japan. Wearing the same thing just doesn't jive with her.

Oranges for parts of outfits sounds like a fantastic deal to her.]

Is it just patching things up or could you craft something like a dress?

[He hasn't ever tried a dress before, but they're in Palai. There should be patterns he can follow. It wouldn't require much more than puppets do, wouldn't it?]

Never tried it, but I don't think it'd be out of my wheelhouse if I did. I'd just need some practice with patterns and those kinds of fabric.

[Very excellent!!]

Then we have a deal~ I'll grow your orange trees and in return I get a new outfit. That's quite fair to me assuming oranges mean as much to you as fashion does to me.

Just tell me what kind of dress you want and it's on.

Um... I don't know what my favorite fruit is, but I can help look for seeds!

[She's got your back neighbor friend.]

That would be wonderful! Once everything grows we'll have you try everything until you do have a favorite. But maybe you'll end up liking everything equally.

But~ if I had to guess I'd say you're a strawberry kind of girl. Or maybe cherries.

[Or maybe blueberries...?]

I can't wait to try them then.

[Both the things that Yuuko is suggesting and... well, everything. Especially if they're going from world to world, there's probably so many different kinds of fruits and plants they've never even heard of. It would be really neat trying to find them all, especially for a friend.

Speaking of growing things...]

Oh, I didn't get the chance to tell everybody before we left for Aimintas, but I found a bunch of trees when I went exploring. Only it wasn't like the forest, they were all in lines and the same distance apart, like someone had planted them. Maybe that could be a good spot for your garden too?

An orchard!

[An orchard would help a great deal. And someone has already mentioned a vineyard where there are surely grapes. This is looking quite good. So much so that she probably doesn't have to do very much work at all.]

Were you able to tell what kind of trees they were? What did they look like?

[Assuming they were fruit trees is presumptuous but she has a good feeling that they're trees that will produce something. Hopefully it's not just rows of pine trees waiting to be harvested for the holidays.]

Well... I don't really know what different kinds of trees look like. [Sorry.]

But they had leaves, and they looked kind of shorter than the forest around us, maybe? But um, also... the leaves were all different colors, and um.... I'm not sure but it didn't look like it was a good kind either. Like maybe they're sick?

[Could trees get sick?]

I've no favourites, but our powers are similar. I can assist, if nothing else.

You can grow plants too?

[The extra help would be great. She has no idea the limits of this new magic. Someone (her) didn't do any of the recommended training.]

Usually. Back in our island I couldn't, but outside of it I apparently can.

Is this a new power for you? Or one you've had for a while?

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