Now that the whole endless night thing had passed, and the sun was finally starting to poke her beautiful face out once more, Dante had to get out of the temple. He had too much energy to remain cooped up inside for more than a few hours at a time and frankly, the idea of dismantling the building brick by brick and rebuilding it just to keep his hands busy had occurred to him towards the latter half of Longnight. Sure, he had Clemente now (thank god) but the two of them together would surely only make a teardown and rebuild effort go quicker than before.
As it was he'd taken some seeds from Evie's makeshift greenhouse within the temple, her promise to teach him more about the local flora playing in his head as he tossed the seeds in the palm of his hand. If Dante was anything then he was impatient, already itching to learn more about Caido now that he lived here for the foreseeable future. As for the very present moment, it seemed in need of some flowers. He'd taken the seeds as an excuse to go for a walk, throwing a smile and a wave at anyone that happened to glance at him on his way through the settlement. But now, at the end of the lane, at the edge of the largely dilapidated buildings, he found himself kneeling alongside the path.
Sure they may have been an excuse to get outside but it didn't mean he wasn't interested in actually helping the community around him, even if it just meant planting a few seeds along the walkway. With his knees muddied by a mix of melting snow and thawing earth, Dante held the seeds in one hand as he shoved his thumb into the dirt in small rows, creating small homes for the seeds.
"Okay, you're going to go in here and I know it's still a little cold," Dante dropped one seed in a hole and covered it with dirt before moving to the next one. "But it'll warm up, and you're going to grow up big and strong! Just keep reaching for the sun and all that."
