First Flower ✿ video | action

[buttpunch]

[The feed comes on to one of the sectioned-off areas of the temporary housing area, more specifically to a cot carefully made and covered with a plastic sheet. Atop the sheer is a collection of plants in various containers, mostly stereotypical pots made of plastic plastic or unglazed ceramic, though there's at least two or three deep cereal bowls for smaller plants and a paint bucket barely in frame. These are very clearly mostly tomato plants, from the small red shapes spotting them here and there.

Finally, a slight redhead enters the frame, fidgeting with her coat nervously.]

Um, hello! My name is Tsubomi Hanasaki--I'm new. It's nice to meet you all! I'm here to talk about plants!

[She lifts the closest pot with any reddening tomatoes, leaning closer to properly show it to the feed.] I've been growing some vegetables. Mostly tomatoes, and I'm waiting on some carrots. Anyway, after some trial and error, I think I've figured out how to grow tomatoes indoors, if anyone wants a plant! There are... a lot here... [She gestures to the pots on the cot.] They need a couple of lamps and some water, and all I ask in return is letting me look at it sometimes! You can keep all the tomatoes, and everything. So if you want to come to the Hold and pick one up, ask around for me! Or I can come to you! I have about twenty, but I'm planting new ones every day, and as soon as they've taken root I'd be happy to give them away. [The power of magic, to get these plants started!]

[She looks uncertain for a moment, and then takes a deep, visible breath.]

Thank you for your time!

[She bows, and goes to turn the video off, only for it to go tumbling from whatever she had it perched on with a rough clatter. Tsubomi's concerned expression fills the feed just before it turns off.]

[Action is open to other people in temp housing or anyone who wants to come by and pick up a plant!]

Comments

[buttpunch]

You asked! [Rude.]

Ah, well--[She pauses, then continues in a small voice that slowly gains strength.] It's better than waiting around, I think! Nothing changes if you just wish for it.

[maddeninghatter]

My goodness, how plucky.

[ He pulls a face, which she (fortunately) can't see because audio. ]

Tell me, is there anything else you can enchant with your weapon? Besides your own talents?

[buttpunch]

I--I don't know. I haven't really tried.

[maddeninghatter]

[ Dreamily: ]

D'you think you could make people grow up faster?

[buttpunch]

Not right now, I don't think! Maybe... eventually? Don't the enchantments do something like learn?

[maddeninghatter]

I hope not. Kids ought to be able to grow at their own pace...

[ But not in a place like this. He sighs, a loud puff of air into the microphone. ]

I suppose. Some of them are smarter than others.

[buttpunch]

Plants don't really live as long as humans. I don't think we need to worry.

[And if they do, well, she'll get it fixed.]

Why do you say that? What does yours do?

[maddeninghatter]

Er...

[ A non-committal noise. ]

You know, that's not true at all. There are trees that live for hundreds of years.

[buttpunch]

Well, certainly, but I don't know that my powers would work on any of the conifers, because they get too big...

[A frown.]

Besides, most humans don't have two-thousand year lifespans, in my experience.