013 - [Action]

[lostinmyway]

[After breakfast, after Norma has broken the news of Stella going home, Grune walks outside to the little vegetable garden at the side of House 34. For the longest time, she simply stands in the middle of it, staring blankly, a packet of seeds in her hand

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[puppet_paladin]

[Cecil is not one to interrupt busy people, but he happens to walk by the Memory Garden this afternoon. And it's been some time since he last saw Grune in person...]

Readying the garden for spring?

[puppet_paladin]

Certain flowers never need to. They bloom one after the other, endlessly.

[lostinmyway]

Oh, my. Those flowers sound very special.

[puppet_paladin]

They bloom in lands with much kinder winters, or else bloom with teeth that could rend limbs. The first are much nicer than the second.

[lostinmyway]

I wonder why those flowers would need teeth like that. They sound very strong.

[puppet_paladin]

They need them to feast on unwary travellers, I believe.

[lostinmyway]

That isn't very nice. Why would they do that?

[puppet_paladin]

They are monsters. People are their favorite meal.

[lostinmyway]

Oh, my. They should eat something else.

[puppet_paladin]

Other monsters, perhaps. That'd be nice.

[lostinmyway]

Or grass. That would be better.

[puppet_paladin]

...Would it not be like eating their own cousins?

[lostinmyway]

[That brings her up short.]

Oh, do you think so?

[puppet_paladin]

They all are plants, after all.

[lostinmyway]

I wonder what they should eat, then.

[puppet_paladin]

Other monsters. Please.