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Who: Haru & YOU.
Where: Haru's Garden on the outskirts of the forest or the mansion garden.
When: Day 88 ( pls correct me if i'm wrong on the day)
Open/Closed: Open to all! But there will be a few closed prompts in here!

[Now that everyone is back on the island hub, the work begins again. For at least the last couple of days Haru has been going in-between two gardens and making sure that she is prepared for the worst. One garden she hadn't even had a chance to start planting... the other? Well, it was in a sad state. The already sad looking mansion garden just looked sadder without her there to take care of it.

If one would happen to find her in the mansion garden, she will be on her hands and knees pulling a monstrous amount of weeds out of the garden. She looks a little worn out and perhaps that is to be expected for a huge garden that got completely out of hand while she was away.

At some point she is sending out a mental message to anyone in her vicinity:]

This is Haru speaking, if someone is free... could they come to the mansion garden? I think I may need a hand out here. Thank you!

[Later on in the day if someone were to find her in the garden by the outskirts of the forest, she is still preparing the ground and the soil for a project garden. It's a hard job to do by yourself, but Haru wasn't about to drag someone out here to do it with her if they didn't want to.]

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[ If there is a garden, Julius (the resident tree) would definitely be there. They've talked a little about gardening and their plans. True to his word, he had gone and collected some seeds plus soil from the world they had just left.

Planting them would entail clearing the garden, however. His superhuman strength does help, but it may not be exactly what Haru is looking for when he's pulled up not only this bunch of weeds but the soil around them as well. ]

... Is this what I should be doing?

[Haru laughs a little as she turns. She is impressed that he got them at the root at the very least.

She bends over, pulling more weeds and little dirt herself.]

As long as you shake the soil back into the garden and make sure you aren't pulling anything but the weeds... I think you will be just fine, Julius-san.

I shall do that then.

[ Crouching down, he'll carefully sluice off whatever clumps he can dislodge. ]

These sure are persistent.

Think of weeds as the enemy of a garden. They grow and try to choke out the plants you want to grow. So of course they will be persistent if you don't take the measures to keep them out.

[She's untangling some plants from a weed currently.]

Unfortunately, we never know when we will be traveling between worlds... so my gardens suffer in the in-between time.

[ What Haru said fits with what he had read, so he'll casually start ripping out whatever is within reach. Being strong helps. ]

Is there a way that we can prevent the weeds from growing altogether?

I don't know if there is a way to stop them all together. They are a natural occurrence. The only way to keep them at bay is to pull weeds once or twice a week.

[She's tossing left and right. This is...months of weeds.]

I see...

[ This kind of sounds oddly like Aragami, but he can deal with it. ]

Please take a rest soon.

Certainly. I was planning on taking a break soon.

[She knows she should be careful and not push herself. She was told as much many times.]

Perhaps you would like to join me for lunch too, Julius-san?

If it's not too imposing, then I would be honoured.

[ He technically has no need for food anymore, but he can participate in social stuff like this. ]

I can make tea, and see what there is to make in the mansion then.

[Be social, Julius. You will not regret.]