216 Near Disasters

[cal_sitter]

My first day back at work, and I have to call in our gardener for an emergency consultation because his vines are playing catch with the wait staff. As I understand it this is not an unusual occurrence when he's involved with plant life of any kind, but he assures me the difficulty was the result of a curse, and the plants here at Lux should

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[captainshort]

Sorry, I don't speak plant.

[cal_sitter]

That's all right. He does.

[captainshort]

Well, good. Ishiah's old plants are getting violent?

[cal_sitter]

They were becoming distractions.

[captainshort]

And you say that like it's a normal thing. I don't know whether that is because of your world or this one.

[cal_sitter]

This one. The greenery in Ninth Circle does nothing more distracting than shed old leaves.

[captainshort]

And as far as I know, shamrocks just sit on their hills like they should.

[cal_sitter]

Holly, are you having difficulties with clover?

[captainshort]

I actually don't keep a patch of Ireland in my room. I've been here long enough to get over any homesickness.

[cal_sitter]

I'm not sure I believe that second part.

[captainshort]

I'm fine, Leandros.

[cal_sitter]

At least enough that you can get by without a patch of Ireland in the window.

[captainshort]

I live under all the hills and shamrock anyway.

[cal_sitter]

Your people don't have any settlements in New York, do they?

[captainshort]

We probably have a shuttle terminal on the outskirts at most. The largest fairy city is Haven in Ireland-I think it would be too dangerous to have a settlement so close to such a huge concentration of humans. It's asking to be found.

If there ever was one, it was abandoned long before New York got as big as it is now.