Greening up the Greenhouse

[springforth]

Who: Persephone (Open)
Where: Greenhouse mostly
When: Month Egret. Day 21
What: Perse has a bad morning and decides to be productive to make herself feel better
Warnings: None so far


OOC: Feel free to reply to any part of this, in the cabin or before she starts planting

She's spent longer on this train now than she'd been in Olympus. It doesn't really feel possible that it all happened in such a short time. It feels even less possible that she could be here months. Years? She stays curled up in her bunk that morning, staring at the wall. Crying maybe. A little. She's already had her birthday on here. What more is she missing at home? Nothing, because time doesn't move there like everyone said, or has Artemis been looking for her desperately. Would she have told her mom? Would Hades notice if she stoppped showing up to the internship?

Generally speaking, it's a bad morning. She drifts to a late breakfast and finally ends up in the greenhouse. There's a long moment where she wants to tear it all down. Her fists clench at the sight of her inane roses, her eyes fill red at the reminder that the greenhouse came with her arrival. She wants to break the walls, tear down the roses, claw up the burgeoning growth, destroy the smells and sights that remind her of her home, of her dreams. But she takes a deep breath. Hands relax, her eyes clear. Put into work. Wrath isn't helping anyone.


She sifts through the seeds, picking out ones for vegetables and fruits, leaving the ones for more decorative things to the side. Plenty of people have used this place for flowers. Herself included. Carefully, she trails one set of seeds in a thin line along the edge of a raised bed and covered them with soil. With a hand to the soil, she takes a deep breath and with a soft pink glow, plants curl up and out, unwinding leaves and blossoming. It continues until the blossoms fall and red strawberries hang fat and glistening. She picks one and holds it in her teeth as she stands to start the process all over.

Comments

[springforth]

"You're welcome to try, if we give it a go."

As short as she is, she couldn't possibly hope to reach the ceiling, but still she reaches for it, trying to test just how far she could stretch a tree. If only this place was larger. Three times as tall and four times as wide. A willow would be lovely in the center. Might as well dream big if she's going to.

"Do you use a bow and arrow? My best friend is a very skilled archer."

[laurefindil]

"If we fail, then at least we can say we tried," Glorfindel said. "To not try is an automatic failure."

He smiles as she reaches up on tip toe. "Do you need a boost?" he asked. "Or perhaps a crate to stand on, if you prefer?"

"I have been using them for...a very long time. I'd like to consider myself quite skilled as well." He tilts his head to the side. "Is your friend on this Train too?"

[springforth]

"N-No, I'm fine! I just...thinking about height."

Persephone shakes her head, both at his offer and his question.

"Oh no, she's not here. Artemis would never let herself get snatched up. She's much smarter than that. She has important things to do."

[laurefindil]

Glorfindel gave her a look. There were a wide variety of beings on board that Train, and he was pretty sure that quite a few of them had things important to them that they were doing. "I know at least three beings on this Train who were dead. That did not seem to stop the Train from grabbing them."

He looked up at the ceiling. "I wonder...if the tree started touching the ceiling, would the train eventually raise it? It has made sure that the tallest amongst us are not perpetually bowed."

[springforth]

Persephone meets his eyes, then looks away, tugging a lock of hair forward. Twining it around her fingers, she bites her lip.

"I am aware. I know she's not actually--I just don't want her to get caught up in this. And if I pretend she can avoid it by just being smart enough, who would blame me."

She gives the ceiling another look and sighs.

"It must know how tall we are somehow. I feel like you could make it infinitely tall if you could actually exploit that."

[laurefindil]

Glorfindel nodded. "I apologize then. I am sure that is why she is not here now. Though, would she find coming to be with you in your time of need to be important enough to come anyway?"

"Maybe we could talk to someone who was here before Dread arrived, to see if that was the case?"

[springforth]

Persephone consider the question. Maybe. Well--probably. Artemis hadn't liked Persephone's lack of freedom any better than herself. But Artemis has duties a plenty and she only needs to keep herself busy to push off the gloom. She shrugs with an air 'don't want to think about that'.

"We could. If they changed to suit the heights of whomever comes aboard, we just need to get a person as tall as the trees to wander through. Very simple. I'm sure we could just conjure one up, no problem."

[laurefindil]

He laughed. "Or we just grow some trees and see if the train takes the hint."

[springforth]

"Add a few more inches every day to keep it nudging up, maybe?"

She pantomimes a tree growing slowly, a furtive movement of her hands up and up.

"I'll give it a shot."

[laurefindil]

"Then the only question is, what kind of tree? And where are we going to put it? Dead center, or do we want to do two, one at either end of of the car, for symmetry?

[springforth]

That is a lot of decision-making. She props her hands on her hips and looks around them. Would it be worse to shade out things in the middle or on both ends? With a sigh, she gestures to one end. nearer the sleeper cars.

"Let's just try one down here before we make big plans. I'm still not sure how well this will work." As for type... "Cherry maybe? They have lovely flowers but still provide fruit. And I've seen some on the smaller side. All the nut trees tend to get so big."

[laurefindil]

"I like this plan. Now we just need some cherry seed, right?" Glorfindel asked. "I haven't seen any in the kitchen or stores. But maybe we can order some from the train point store?"

[springforth]

"Probably be easiest to get a particular one that's edible."

She taps her chin, thinking, "I don't know how many points I have. We'll have to see whenever we get to another station, I guess. But if we get any, I can plant and grow it. Just hopefully not too much."

[laurefindil]

[Well, we now have Misa's Bothan fruit, if we want to jump forward to a more current thread?]

"We'll do our best," Glorfindel. "It's really all we can do."

[springforth]

[Yes! Sounds good!]