LET'S. GET. GARDENIIIING.

[blessedbyfarore]

Who: Everyone!
What: Gardening!
When: Sunday 14th August, all day
Where: Outside the Welcome Centre
Summary: Finally, the time has come to get Luceti's memory garden on the road.
Rating: ...I sincerely hope this won't go above a PG rating.

Early on Sunday morning, Link can be found outside the Welcome Centre - gathering seedlings and seed packets, setting aside a willow sapling, laying out gardening tools. When it's still fairly early by the standards of most people, especially for a Sunday morning in summer, the following message will go out over the journals:

"Hi, everyone! D'you remember the garden I talked about earlier? Well, all the beds have been dug and I've got lots of plants, so come over to the Welcome Centre today and plant something for your friends that have gone home!"

If anyone heads on over, they'll find Link sitting back and relaxing, keeping an eye on the piles of gardening implements, small pots of seedlings and packets of seeds and a collection of bulbs, and a large sheet of paper and bundle of pencils. Across the top of the paper, the words, 'Leave a message for friends!' is written, and Link has already written the first message - 'Hi Vivi, I hope you like the gardens! Love Link'.

There will be snack runs over the course of the day. And if he can convince certain people, live music. Remembering friends, being outside on a sunny day (refreshing after yesterday's storm!), nice food, and music - what could be better?


((OOC: Forward-dated to Sunday. Open to everyone, mingle away! If anyone has questions or needs help or wants to know WTF is going on, Link will be on hand for the whole day to keep an eye on things.))

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[consultmybooks]

Giles heaves a sigh that's equal parts annoyance and theatrics. "I suppose I should. God only knows, I know how inconvenient blows to the head can be."

[shadedsunlight]

/And I'd like to avoid any concussions or head trauma. Who knows what another solid blow to the head might bring. Maybe even another personality./

Even as she jokes, that last idea is something that does scare Alice. Even if it were a nicer personality in comparison to herself, three is most certainly a crowd.

[consultmybooks]

"And I should think that you're both keen to avoid that. From the sounds of it, you have your hands full with one another."

[shadedsunlight]

/Been just the two of us for eight years now. Wouldn't do very well having someone else come edging in now. Besides, you figure if someone else was to pop up, it would have happened by now./

[consultmybooks]

"You'd be surprised - and probably not pleasantly so. But Luceti has a way of broadening one's horizons on a variety of fronts."

[shadedsunlight]

Alice frowns at that bit of news, getting a bit more disturbed at the prospect of it. However, she won't disagree with the last part of his statement. She's out and about and talking to people. It's an improvement on the norm.

/How long have you been here?/

[consultmybooks]

"With both of my stays combined? Getting onto a year. This time? About five months."

he says it in the tone of voice of one who's had to answer this question too many times to count.

[shadedsunlight]

And twice now to Ginia-Alice. Alice gives a small nod, trying to imagine being here for five months.

/Ever miss your home?/

[consultmybooks]

"I miss the people I had to leave back home. There is a difference.

But I like being here. I'm not ashamed to admit it."

[shadedsunlight]

/Ever wish those people could be here?/ Because when she's calmed down and isn't out on a violent rampage, Alice can be just as curious as Ginia can be.

[consultmybooks]

"With a frequency that could probably be called depressing. I know it's selfish to wish that anyone else was here, but I do."

It's the only chance he'll have to see them again, after all.

[shadedsunlight]

/Maybe selfish, maybe not. It's people you care about and even if it sucks with all the experiments and other shit you guys always talk about going down... they're still people you know and that's probably a comfort to have./

There's a small pause after Alice's mild outburst as she looks out over at the memory garden.

/I think I'd like to see some people here. Or she would. Ginia. It'd be kinda nice./

[consultmybooks]

"There's always the chance they'll appear. Occasionally, Luceti shows what might even be called a fondness for drawing in people with connections. Four of us all arrived from home, including myself, within a week of one another the first time I was here."

Giles rests his chin in his hand, starting out over the garden.

"I suppose it's a simple enough way to keep us quiet."

[shadedsunlight]

/Placate the masses with glimpses of happiness. Fuck them over and remind them where they are by taking them away./ Alice muses out loud, a sad smile settling in her face. There are people she knows Ginia would be happy to see here, but the pain of losing them a second time may be too much to bear.

[consultmybooks]

Giles considers this for a second, and then shrugs before signing his reply.

/I might not phrase it quite so bluntly, but you probably have it broadly correct./

[shadedsunlight]

Alice just calls it as she sees it, though have little brain-mouth filter helps too.

/Can't quite say I like the idea of being a lab rat either./

Her body tenses slightly as some of the memories come back, her gaze turning away to look elsewhere.

[consultmybooks]

"No one does. But it's a reality everyone here has to deal with, at one time or another.

...for me, it was about a month into my first stay here."

[shadedsunlight]

Alice glances back at him.

/Sorry to hear that, though I guess we aren't better off. We got nabbed after our first month.

...They do anything to you?/

[consultmybooks]

"Yes, actually." He smiles grimly without looking over at her. "They took my voice."

[shadedsunlight]

/Sucks. Wouldn't wish muteness on anyone but the people I really hate. How long did that last?/

[consultmybooks]

"Just a week. Long enough for me to develop a mutual hatred that has proven to be quite enduring."

[shadedsunlight]

/At least it was only a temporary thing. I'm used to it now. So's she./

[consultmybooks]

"Anything done to you over the course of a kidnapping generally is only a temporary thing. It might be a long while - my last effect lasted two months, Buffy's lasted six. But it is temporary."

[shadedsunlight]

His words bring a sense of dread to Alice as realization kicks in. Maybe she's not out because Ginia's resting; maybe she's out because the Malnosso made it that way. Oh God.