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[erbier]

Shame on us; doomed from the start.

May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts.

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[erbier]

No, thank you; not for me.

[hippie_ninja]

Okay. Uhm. Tea? Or jerky? I've got a lot of jerky.

[erbier]

[ There is the briefest puff of laughter. No one has offered her jerky before. ]

Tea sounds fine.

[hippie_ninja]

All right. I'll bring tea.

[And jerky and fruit jerky. He's there the next morning, bright and early]

[erbier]

[ She comes to greet him; a young woman dressed to work in the garden all day. She finishes tying her work apron at her back on the way over. ]

Good morning.

[hippie_ninja]

How's it going?

[He smiles]

This is probably my favorite place on the whole ship.

[erbier]

[ She does not smile much in kind, but that is normal. She is restrained, even with people she likes. ]

It is a fine garden. We are blessed to have it.

[hippie_ninja]

What would you add to it? IF you could. No holds barred.

[he sips his tea]

[erbier]

Oh... I would like many more fruit trees.

[ There aren't none, but how dense an orchard maze they can create is limited by space. ]

[hippie_ninja]

That would be great wouldn't it? Just...rows of them.

I'm thinking of going more vertical. Having berry bushes climbing to the ceiling. We've got all kinds of people who could harvest them easily even without ladders.

[erbier]

Come, I will show you the flowers I have been trellising.

[ She's ready to get to work. She fans her fingertips over the leaves of the other plants as she walks by. Her current project is edible flowers, and she has been fleshing out a plot with different flowers and bushes. The purple nasturtiums climb with a trellis in an arch.

Ilde dives in to examining leaves and stems and asking the plants how they are feeling this morning. It takes her a second to get back to Jesus, ]

I have been reading that these blossoms can be pickled.

[hippie_ninja]

This is amazing.

[he pauses to smell one of the flowers and--yeah he could imagine that scent in his mouth.]

How do we do it? I'll help.

[erbier]

[ She produces some twine and popsicle sticks from her apron. ]

We can use these to create guides.

[ She had researched how to train a plant up a trellis on her own. She had traded books with Dr. Hilbert for several months, expanding her vocabulary in modern terms. She's proud of herself in this endeavor. ]

Here.

[ She offers him a pair of scissors from the apron as well, and unspools some twine for him to cut. ]