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Bone bridge. Domiciles. Fields.

You're still struggling with the order of the alphabet dictating in what order you should conduct your research. After all, the order is nothing unique. It is random and meaningless. Like-sounds aren't grouped together, nor are they arranged by shape. Really, the more you think about it the more nauseous you become. If you let yourself, you'd simply sit down and force yourself to justify the letters, or else scrap your entire project and start over. Luckily you hear Kai in your head, and his voice calms you. S'okay Oia! Sometimes y'just gotta start somewhere! You're not sure how sound this logic is, but at least it reassures you somewhat.

So here you are then, in the fields. Oh, you heard what the Queen called Wessex said, as well as the one called Delah. But as an inhabitant of neither the Greatwood nor the Hollowed Grounds you consider yourself appropriately exempt from the cold war brewing.

Moving with ease through the field you search for a place that seems appropriately fertile to plant the seeds you've brought with you.

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Lily
She’s just a singer - well, a little more than that, but these days that is probably what best describes Lily. Music-maker. Musician? Maybe in her dreams, which have somehow drifted from dancing and fucking and lovely, beautiful things, to the simple pleasure of sitting at her piano and struggling to compose.

She needed to clear her addled head, get some fresh air, do something else outdoors, lest she become a hermit. A hermit with a sex room.

Ha. Now that is pathetic. Frey would be most unhappy with that kind of development, Lily thinks.

Out for a simples stroll, a thin-brimmed hat on to guard against the glare of the sun, the red-head treks and squelches her way through the mud. Some parts are easy, some steps seem to pull at her feet and want to keep her boots attached to the ground. It’s surprisingly tiring. By the time the woman reaches the firmer ground of the Fields, she’s panting a bit from the exertion. Upon spotting another woman nearby, Lily waves at her to get her attention.

“Hey! Do you have any water?”

The singer is particularly in tune with her hydration levels and hates feeling parched.
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Motion catches your attention, and you look towards it. It's a vaguely woman-like shape, waving in your direction. Quickly she follows the gesture up with a question, that has you nodding. "Yes." You reply, because you do. How else are you going to set the initial conditions for your seeds? But she hasn't asked for any, and so you return to your work.

Unlike Lily, you haven't bothered with shoes. Instead your pants are rolled up to the knee (not that it matters, the mud won't be kept from climbing), and your toes are buried in the mud. You rather like the tactile feel of it, though many would likely disagree. Kneeling down with no regard for your clothing, you big to measure out spacing for your seeds, marking with as much accuracy as you can where each ought to be planted using a stock of wheat that you've found. It's a crude system, but unfortunately you haven't been able to find anything better. Still, you note all of your imprecision in your notes so that you results accurately reflect the initial conditions.

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’Yes,’ but no offer to share. Well that’s kind of rude, isn’t it? Lily makes a face but continues to advance towards the kneeling woman. And as the other is very much focused on her task, Lily doesn’t say anything until she’s able to see exactly what the other is doing.

Planting. Ok. Well, ‘tis the season.

“So... can I have some?” Lily asks, pointing at the water and now acutely aware that it’s not like she’s dying of thirst, and now the request seems a little silly. Though on second thought, the methodical way in which the woman is going about the planting might also be a little bit silly. Extreme, that is. Who measures it out so consistently?

“What are you planting?”
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You look up and the woman is closer. For a moment you merely blink at her. "Have some what?" It might have come across like a snarky reply if your face wasn't so completely free of malice or sarcasm. You appear generally unsure what it is she could possibly be referring to.

"Seeds." You reply, thinking that it was obvious. Most of the human-animals that you seem to have met so far seem to rank fairly low on observational intelligence given the sorts of questions they ask. Though, that's rich coming from you, given that most of the time you need a chart to understand what a smile means.

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“Some… water?” Lily asks, for a third time, confusion clearly writ in the lines on her forehead and the upward lilt of her voice. She is pointing at the container, isn’t she? It only takes a couple of moments for her to decide that waiting is pointless (it probably isn’t, but she feels awkward and impatient), so she sighs and says mostly to herself, “Ah, fuck it,” and lifts the container to her lips anyway.

A couple of gulps quenches her thirst. There’s plenty left to water the seeds, which was so astutely also pointed out. “Mmm, I can see that. I meant what kind of seeds.” Returning the water container to its original place, Lily remains hesitantly standing, unsure of whether or not she wants to continue this awkward encounter. Though it does seem rude to just take some water and then leave.
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You don't register the crinkle of her brow or the raising of her voice for what it is. It all happens too soon, and suddenly the jug of water is in her hands and she's drinking from it. You absolutely don't mind, so long as there is enough for the seeds, which you then articulate: "Leave enough for the seeds."

Your looks of confusion are much more subtle—just a flinch of your brows really. If she meant what kind of seeds, you don't know why that wasn't what she asked in the first place. "They are a flower from a jungle far from here. I want to see if they will grow in this climate. My hypothesis is that the soil is too arid, but I am interested to see how far in their growth cycle they can get before the climate proves to be too much for them."

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Lily
As the woman rattles off what she’s doing, Lily manages to piece it together. Mostly. She isn’t stupid, mind you. She just isn’t scientifically-minded and neither is colonial America (at least not in the right ways). Without asking if she can join, the redhead kneels by the stranger’s side to watch her meticulous movements. “What does arid mean? And why do you need to test this… hypothesis out?” No one else seems to be doing this. They plant the regular crops, they do the things they’ve done year after year (or so she assumes) and sometimes the plants grow bountiful and sometimes they don’t. The farmers know what is needed in regards to the weather - but this is a flower, not something they eat.

“Are you new here?” Lily asks, wondering if she’s just been unobservant or if the other portalled in recently, or what. She talks funny enough to be from somewhere else, but seems to know more than Lily about Caido, or at least that there’s a jungle… somewhere.
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"Arid. Usually relating to land or soil that is dry or hospitable to supporting life." You recite promptly without looking up. "The climate these flowers normally grow in is not unlike a rainforest. There is near constant moisture. Compared to there, these are desert-like conditions. I am interested to see how they adapt."

Still you don't look up, your fingers working into the soil. Dirt and grime coats your hands and lodges itself beneath your nails but you hardly notice at all. In fact, you rather like it. "Here? Yes." You acknowledge with a perfunctory nod, continuing on as you have been and continuing to be a terrible conversationalist as usual.

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Lily’s nose crinkles a bit. Ok, arid she now understands and hopes she’ll remember the word later. Rain-forest. That makes sense if it’s a forest where it constantly rains and has near constant moisture. But as to why the stranger needs to do this, the jury’s still out. “Ok. So you’re interested in plants? But you didn’t say why you’re doing this. Why not food plants, since that’s the most important for us right now?”

It is the planting season, yes, but flowers (and failed ones, at that) won’t feed them in the summer, autumn, or winter.

Well that explains it, the entertainer thinks rather cattily to herself, but in the interest of keeping this curious encounter (which certainly isn’t boring, just unusual right now) going, she keeps the baby snarks quiet.
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"Yes." You are interested in plants. And brains and rainbows and tadpoles; just about anything that breathes holds interest for you. "Because this experiment has nothing to do with what's important for you." You reply in the same matter-of-fact tone.

Reaching your hand out, you open and close your fingers in the direction of the canteen that Lily had recently drank from. With the seeds planted you're now ready to provide them with water.

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Lily
Lily obliges and passes the water canteen to the stranger, trying to digest what she’s said. It has nothing to do with what’s important to them, which seems… she’s trying to figure out how she feels about that. On one hand, there’s a social contract of sorts among the Hollowed Grounders. On the other hand, everyone is entitled to be selfish every now and then. But she is starting to get frustrated with this person (even though they never asked her stop by, she’s stayed entirely of her own accord, and perhaps therein lies the source of her frustration).

“Right. Well. Whoever you are, would you prefer I leave you alone? It seems like I’m bothering you.” The redhead asks, allowing more snideness to seep in to her tone, preparing to stand up and leave if the answer is yes.
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You don't notice Lily's tone. Things like that are hard for you to parse, and without Kai to nudge you into paying attention, your thoughts are solely on the seeds. "Yes." You reply easily enough. You almost always prefer to be alone, save for Kai. But of course you don't realize how this will be interpreted (as with most things), and so rather than looking up to qualify your statement, you continue to diligently water the soil.

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Lily
“Okay,” Lily says with a shrug, pushing herself up from the ground and tries to remove as much wet dirt from her knees and butt as possible. It’s weird. There’s this vaguely non-personal feeling about the whole encounter, but then of course Lily is going to take that kind of dismissal personally, even though she asked for it. It’s a petty, childish feeling.

In the end she comes to the conclusion that the girl’s just doing a stupid thing, doing something that she thinks will fail, and it wasn’t that interesting anyway. Without so much as a word in farewell, Lily passes behind the stranger and starts to continue on her way - her back very strategically, very clearly in view if the other should look up and try to stop her. Which of course, the entertainer wants. Lily always wants to to be wanted.
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