Room 504, Monday Evening

[intraspective]

Ino had made it through the day. Between getting back, going to class, and talking to Tyler-sensei, she’d figured that whatever Hinata-chan said that she’d totally done her quota of being around and putting her schedule back on normal sort of tracks.

Of course, that’s when she made it back to her room, showered and wriggled into her jammies that Ino realized, depressingly, that she wasn’t sleepy. Making a phone call killed all of thirty seconds, and then she pulled out several gardening magazines and tried to start planning for Tyler-sensei’s flowers. Maybe she would go the love note route, just to make him facepalm.

Her door was left open, as a matter of course.

[Door and post are open! ETA: Anything mission related, beyond it happening, is NFB please!]

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[raspberryturk]

That was a somewhat enthusiastic nod.

"Yes. Please, yo. You kinda lost me back at 'inch of water.'" Reno? Green thumb? Not at all. "What other veggies are easy to grow, you know?"

[intraspective]

She made a bit of an amused face at that.

"I'll have a bunch written up for you then," Ino promised. "In easy-to-understand words. Radishes are really easy, so carrots are pretty good the first year, but the second year if you're not careful they'll get a lot of issues. Peas. Potatoes. Onions if you start them early enough. Lettuce and summer squash. There's quite a bit of fairly easy ones. Vegetables are way easier than fruit to grow for the most part, though tomatoes aren't bad either, if it's hot enough."

[raspberryturk]

Mental notes were failing him. He was too tired and too hungry to be able to keep it all straight.

"Make me a list? And before I graduate, I'll get seeds."

[intraspective]

"I'll make a list, more than one even," she promised him. She'd have to include pH types, how to test the soil, how much water for each, what was needed to start...

"And you'll have plenty to keep busy with, that's good for a load of people. You can set things up that while first year are a lot of work for little reward, start giving out a lot better second year too."

[raspberryturk]

"Hey, if it means that people are eatin' in the long run, I'm all for it. I bet the people around Edge are willin' to try, too."

A pause.

"Know of anything that works good in a desert where there ain't no life left in the dirt? Or any way to work with that? Dry, polluted sand?"

[intraspective]

She tugged on her hair thoughtfully. "I can think of a few things that might work," Ino said slowly, "but there'd be a lot of transplanting the first few years. Let me think 'bout it a bit?"

[raspberryturk]

"Sure." Reno nodded a little. "If sand don't work, then gimmie some kinda idea how much dirt we should look into haulin' into Edge, or if there's some way to grow things, like... without dirt. Hydro... Word. That?"

Ponics, Reno.

"I mean, there are options, yeah? Just gotta find 'em."

[intraspective]

"Hydroponics," she said, smiling. "That could work too. How're you guys for water there?"

Ino looked at him, blue eyes steady and confident. "There's always options, Reno."

[raspberryturk]

"Water situation's pretty shitty, too. But, I dunno. Make it work usin' a bit of all of it, or somethin', that might be good, right?" He tried a small smile back. Smiling actually felt kind of good, didn't it? "There's always options, yo. Thanks, Ino."

He held up the chocolate bar in a bit of a salute.

"You lemmie know how that love letter of yours goes, huh?"

[intraspective]

"I'll make a copy of it for you," she informed him. "And you'll be totally the first to hear when I get in and find Mr. Needs to Learn a Lesson. If it's in a box, I'll probably drag it out of there myself, if it's not, you're getting called in for rhino carrying duty, you know."

Cheerful silly stuff that was more than a touch morbid. Good enough to make him smile.

Him thanking her made her twitch a bit, but she kept smiling. "Anytime, you."

[raspberryturk]

He stood up and stretched, nodding to her.

"I probably better get goin', anyhow. Still gotta tie up a lotta... loose ends, or whatever, after this week. Don't let any rhinos eat you in the meantime, yo."

[intraspective]

She nodded.

"I'll deal with any rogue rhinos with every bit of caution needed," Ino said. "And, hey, loose ends or not I'm always glad of your company."

If he needed it.