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Ink wishes + flowers planting

WHO: Crowe Altius and Nyx Ulric; Crowe Altius and open
WHERE: Around Chroma - probably in Bluo
WHEN: The Crowe and Nyx one is anytime during the month; the other prompt is backdated to the notebooks and ink event
WHAT: Flowers planting and walls enforcing
WARNINGS: No warnings currently, will edit if some turn out to be necessary.

Prompts below; will match format. If you need her for something, feel free to tag in, as well.

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[ Even Crowe has to admit that it's a beautiful day. She's still giving the two animals out with them all the side eyes, never mind that they have cohabited for months now, and squints at a stretch of grass behind a row of dilapidated houses. ]

How about here?

[Chocobob is happily oblivious to her side-eyeing, chirping in delight at how green the grass back here is. She stands obligingly still as Nyx removes the saddlebag from her back and then trots over to a particularly long patch to forage. Rahm has long since perfected the art of ignoring Crowe's suspicion while also pointedly laying her claim on Nyx's attention at every possible moment, but fortunately she's also quite distracted by the nice day. She's been lazily chasing bugs the entire walk here.]

Looks good to me. Protected from foot traffic, good sunlight. I think he'd like it.

[It's been almost a month since Prompto had gone home. It wasn't really a tradition or anything to plant flowers for those they'd grown close to here, but having a reason to do it besides 'the quest giver said so' made it mean something.

Besides, what's a better way to honor the kid than planting a small chocobo garden?]

... right. We've gotta make it picture perfect, too. So he'd be able to just take as many shots as possible.

[ Beat. Then she shakes her head and tosses one of the shovels at Nyx. ]

Let's get started with getting things ready, and then we can decide what to plant there, yeah?

You got it.

[He catches the shovel and starts blocking out a section to plant in with the edge, nudging Chocobob further out of the way, before beginning to turn over the dirt properly.]

You know, you probably figured this already, but I think I can count the number of times I've ever planted anything on one hand.

[ ...and Crowe just looks up at him, arms crossed. ]

Nyx. It's me. How many times do you think I've done it? The closest I've had was looking at the gardeners of wealthy families tend their front yards.

How much could there be to it?

[He snorts.]

If you ask Ignis? A lot. And I know certain things about tending spices for beer, but I'm pretty sure for this it's just going to be 'open hole, put in plant, cover with dirt'.

Let's go with that. Except with putting in seeds.

[ She takes out the ones she has, spilling them into her hand.

Which the chocobo peers at with surprised interest, and she closes her palm to shoot it away. ]

Right?

[Chocobob 'kweh's and trots around Crowe's other side.]

Doesn't sound hard at all.

[Nyx churns the earth with the blade of the shovel so that it's nice and loose, then tosses the shovel aside as he kneels down. Digging both hands into the soil, Nyx scoops out a hole and drops the excess next to it.]

Right. So let's get to it.

[ She shoves Chocobob - which is a little more fondly than she would ever admit to - aside with her shoulder, returns the seeds to the pouch, and takes up the other shovel.

Digging holes time. ]

It's flowers. Not deep holes, right?

Right. I think if they're too deep they won't be able to break through the dirt.

[He spaces out the holes he's making, measuring in his head as he shuffles around the garden. Finishing the first line, he nods to himself and wipes his hands on his pants.]

This look good? Or will we need more room?

Let's go with this. [ She's been making a row parallel to his own, not that much slower. ] Put the plants in these, or dig the whole lot of holes, or do it all together?

[He thinks for a moment.]

Let's get them all dug and plant them at once so we don't forget where they are. Once the dirt's covering the seeds I'm sure it'll all look the same.

[ Small snort, and she shrugs, finishing her current hole. ]

Sure, let's go with that.

Look, don't drag me like that.

[He's grinning as he sits back on his heels, glancing back to doublecheck that Rahm isn't getting into trouble the next building over.]

You asked.

I really wouldn't dream of doing that.

Hey Nyx. If this works out, maybe we can work on more plants, right? Ask, like, Ignis and all about what should be planted when and help out.

Be a bit different from building a wall and cutting down trees.

[A thoughtful pause.]

I wonder if I can find enough stuff to make a good, Galahdan ale... too bad those notebooks took all our ink. I'll have to keep it in mind next time they give us an offer like this. Ask for a batch of seeds from home.

I mean, I don't think plants need attention all the time. Be a bit of a change from setting out in the morning and wondering what emotion you're coming back without later.

I guess you might ask if anyone's got some ink left over. There've been people asking about making booze, might get help with that.

I saw that. Haven't heard back yet but I did mention that I knew a thing or two.

[This is starting to feel nostalgically familiar. In a good way.]

Libertus would flip if he could see us now.

[ The hole she's digging right now sure is interesting. She's missing Libertus so much it hurts, and she's sure it's worse for Nyx. ]

I mean, he'd flip if he could see us at all. If he saw us now, it might be an hour before he stopped laughing.

That's true enough. I wouldn't hear the end of it for weeks.

[He'd tease Crowe a lot lighter than he'd tease Nyx, but then Libertus and Nyx had been friends since childhood. Giving each other shit was almost law at that point.

Nyx saw him for just a few minutes when he'd gone back home before. Since Lunafreya had at least made it to Altissia Nyx knows that Libertus definitely made it out of the city. He'd give almost anything to see the man again, but it's enough to know he's alive and well.]

Yeah.

[ She swallows, then almost manages another snort. ]

Think he's had to do any more planting than you? He'd be as bad as us, wouldn't he.

Oh, Six, worse. Especially if his leg's still busted. He'd be complaining about how everything is wrong and that this isn't how it's done in Galahd.

[Suspiciously quiet up until now, Chocobob takes advantage of their reminiscing to lean in and grab the pouch of seeds in her beak, then backpedaling out of range before Nyx can even jump to his feet.]

Hey!

What the-- CHOCOBOB!

[ She is not going to chase the chocobo.

But she will send a bust of thunder to the side of the bird opposite to Nyx, attempting to spook it closer to him. That's tactical thinking, right? ]

[It would be, and technically it works, except a little too well. She puts on a burst of speed that dodges Nyx's lunge to catch her and runs back around the side of the building.

Nyx stares after her in disbelief, then back at Crowe, before running a hand through his hair and going after her.]

Dammit, Chocobob! Bring those back!

... Nyx. You all right?

[ She'll have to trust that the pouch will make the access to the seeds frustrating for long enough for the bird that they can get them back. Hopefully.

So, priorities. ]

[Aimless cursing.

Fortunately, the simple game of keep away is distracting enough that Chocobob seems to have little interest in nibbling open the bag. She appears again, wings flapping, around the other side of the buildings and Nyx cuts around a second later.]

I'm going to have Ignis roast you in garlic!

Just grab the pouch if you're close enough, you don't have catch the chocobo itself, you know.

[ Oh, Astrals, this is not going to work with one person only. Crowe bites down on her grown and silently starts moving around the side of the building that Chocobob first disappeared around. Bracing herself, in case Nyx managed to herd the bird, rather than catch it. ]

I've been trying!

[Clever bird is just having fun now. He swears she'd let him get close a couple times on purpose. Spotting Crowe's motion out of the corner of his eye, Nyx changes direction to try and coax Chocobob to taunt him that way again. This would be so much easier if he could warp.]

[ Crowe doesn't say anything.

And she does warp, just when the bird's attention is on Nyx, half ready to bolt and half taunting. She might not be quite as good as Nyx, but she's also had a decade of practice. ]

Ta da!

[ She holds up the pouch...

... then rolls away as Chocobob tries to reclaim it. ]

What are you even doing, you silly bird. We're trying to do something good, here. You'll like the flowers later.

If you don't behave, I'll tie you up!

[Chocobob protests and ruffles her feathers, disappointed, but Nyx finally catches up and pets her neck soothingly.]

Come on, girl. These seeds won't even taste good. We'll go foraging when we're done, I promise.

[He's not sure the words are entirely effective, but Chocobob seems to know that the game is over now. She twists to nibble on Nyx's hair and he sighs fondly.]

Clearly this is why I never became a farmer.

[ Crowe shakes her head, then just starts putting seeds into the first holes they dug out and covering them in the soil they had removed. At least if something else happens, they will have planted some. ]

It's all right. Whatever the bird might think you have too much of, I like you the way you are.

[ Both a tease and serious. ]

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