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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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Isn't that just looking away from the reality of this situation though?

[A sigh.]

It is. I didn't say I-- [He winces, gritting his teeth as he yanks out a particularly difficult patch of weeds--] agreed with her approach.

[He stops, considering what he's pulled out before tossing it into a pile to the side.] But it may be difficult to convince her to think differently.

I don't know if any of us could convince her to look at things differently, honestly.

[Which is saying something. Haru tried already.]

No, I suppose not.

[A pause. He looks out towards the trees again before saying, almost lightly,]

It's difficult when the person who's our only connection to Qri doesn't seem willing to question her.

It's not only difficult but it's frustrating. Because it means we have no answers. Having no answers gets us nowhere.

[They're like puppets. Pawns in a grander scheme.]

I know some of you have been working hard to get answers, so I can imagine it must feel worse knowing you tried.

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We're still trying. I haven't given up. We've prepared a list of questions for Qri, and Genette has said she'll relay them to her.

. . . it's also possible that if we practice, we may be able to communicate with Qri someday.

Should Qri choose to want to communicate.

[Who said that Qri wanted anything to do with them anyways.]

If she doesn't, we ought to give her a reason to.

[Meaningfully.]

Oh? What kind of reason?

[Jay-kun do you want to cause trouble....]

[Maybe.]

Something like what we wanted to do by withholding the Elto bones from her. We should tell her that if she wants our help, she should talk to us. That's only fair, I think.

[He says all this very mildly, but it's a deceptive sort of mildness.]

Oh, it's fair. Especially since we feel like she is still withholding so much from us.

[She's starting to trim up some of the herbs and bushes.]