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[forgetyourusedtobe]

Who: Elena & you!!!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva, if any
When: May 20th

[Elena accidentally manages to start broadcasting as she's moving through the hallway. The camera follows the light swing of her arm, providing a view of the floor and her legs. She's silent, although really tamping down on the urge to call to people she knows. Staying quiet and remaining as inconspicuous as possible seems like the more logical thing to do in this situation.]

[It's only once she's come to the viewing bay that Elena stops short with a small gasp.]

Oh my God...

[She had been debating if this was a dream or real, but something about seeing outside into space makes this all very, very real. Slowly, she approaches the glass. She places both hands on the glass and through her fingers, you finally get a look at the girl accidentally broadcasting to the entire fleet, confused and upset.]

Comments

[forgetyourusedtobe]

I think you get it now. [She nods a little.] But it sounds like the planet itself is in charge of that instead of the animals.

[innercactus]

Makes sense.

... Is it better? The planet knows what the planet needs, right?

[forgetyourusedtobe]

Maybe. But I wouldn't say it's better for people just wanting to visit.

[innercactus]

... Because the planet knows what the planet wants, and sudden people isn't what it wants!

[ Mystery solved! He looks pleased. ]

[forgetyourusedtobe]

That's probably a pretty good guess. I'm definitely not planning any trips down there myself, although it does sound like it's pretty down there.

[innercactus]

It is very pretty. But I am also .. .biased? Biased, toward liking lots of plants.

[ ... For some obvious reasons. ]

[forgetyourusedtobe]

You biased towards plants? I would have never guessed.

[She's teasing, of course.]

[innercactus]

[ ... It's hard for him to tell, so Asteffiel continues on. ]

It is because they are cute. Have you seen baby orange trees?

[forgetyourusedtobe]

I can't say that I've ever seen a full-grown orange tree in real life.

[innercactus]

[ He stares blankly for a moment, then heads out of the video.

When he comes back, he's got a pot - although a little more like a tray, and he holds it up.

There is a tiny pair of uncurling leaves just above the dirt. ]

Baby orange tree.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

It's so small.

[Elena is genuinely surprised by this. She wasn't exactly expecting it to be a couple feet tall, but certainly not just a little pair of leaves hardly sticking out of the tray he's holding.]

[innercactus]

It is a very new sprout. The little leaves came out ... maybe yesterday?

[ He holds it so that the sprout is level with his eyes, as if that would remind him when it had surfaced. Maybe it does, who knows. ]

[forgetyourusedtobe]

[Elena certainly isn't going to question it.]

How big will it get?

[innercactus]

As big as it has food for! [ Asteffiel reaches an arm up, indicating a tree of.. normal yard tree proportions. ]

But I am thinking, because oranges like humid places, maybe I can convince it to go to three feet. And so I can move it into one of the crew rooms when we have them, and make the room humid, so that it will produce oranges!

[forgetyourusedtobe]

You could probably make a lot of money selling those oranges, you know.

[innercactus]

[ He hadn't thought about that.

It's pretty clear by the really slow blink. ]

And then buy more seeds!

[forgetyourusedtobe]

You could be running your own enterprise pretty quick.

[innercactus]

I will to try this.

[ He'll probably forget. ]