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[sweetmotherofgod]

[Passengers who've met Heather before might notice she's a bit paler and a bit darker around the eyes than usual. Passengers who haven't are about to get a charming introduction, if it's delivered in a slightly flatter, wearier tone than her usual.]

Been a while since I've done one of these, so I should probably introduce myself. Heather Mason. I'm a double-oh-two and I work in the gardens, which is why I'm speaking to you today.

The oxygen gardens are what keep us all breathing and eating stuff that doesn't come in a vacuum pack. They're not a petting zoo. There are four of us trying to keep that place running and it's hard enough without worrying about the crops getting eaten or kicked over or people's pets trying to kill each other. So here's the deal: You're keeping something in the gardens? Drugs, pets, livestock. Dinosaurs. Congratulations. Now you work there. I don't want to hear any bitching, either. We all depend on the oxygen gardens to keep us alive, so if you're taking more out of them than anybody else, you need to put more in.

Oh, and if what you've got in there might cause damage to what someone else has there? It's your job to make sure that doesn't happen, not anybody else's. Come on.

[She'd add that the people she's just conscripted should contact her for details but... well, they might take that as an invitation not to.]

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[ripstides]

I'm really not a child of Demeter, so I can't promise a green thumb. [ if it's not go fetch, Percy, save the world and bring us this thing, he's sort of without skills. ] But where do you weigh in on volunteers?

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[sweetmotherofgod]

You're Percy, right? I love volunteers. Even ones that come with that face. We can use all the help we can get. Hence the tantrum.

[Holy crap did she just say hence? She's totally blaming your "child of Demeter" business okay]

And I wouldn't worry about the green thumbs. I once killed a potted cactus. If the place can survive me, it can survive anything.

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[ripstides]

Yup. [ he's pretty sure there's only the two of them with this face. so, he has to wonder if something went down. ] What happened to Team Simon? [ and whoa, hold that flying sword, lady. he's not some kind of proper word speaking Greek. hence is more suited for Alayne or the King in the North, Robb Stark. ]

My mom always talked about having a garden, maybe putting it on the balcony. I've managed to keep my best friend and my hellhound alive, so I mean plants can't be that hard. Less to watch out for. [ buuuut he has to ask. ] How'd you go from cactus neglect to environmentalist?

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[sweetmotherofgod]

Hey, I don't want to murder the kid. Doesn't mean I wanna work with him.

I kinda fell into it. My... second month here there was only one person working in the gardens. Used to be a friend of his running it and I made some joke before I found out she'd just disappeared. I thought I'd made him all depressed so I volunteered to sooth my guilt, or whatever. Turned out that was just Capa sounding like he always did, but by the time I figured that out I'd kinda got to like it here.

Okay, your turn. Hellhound?

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[ripstides]

Wishful thinking, I guess. [ he's joking. he'd totally save the guy before he threw him to the wolves. Percy just wouldn't let him think that was his goal. ]

Trapped by a conscience. Happens to the best of us. [ never works out how you planned. ] Last time that happened to me, I was starving but I tried to cater to some old lady that wanted to add my friends and I to her collection. Believe me when I say, it was not a harmless stamp gathering.

Yeah, Mrs. O'Leary. She was a gift. Anyway, when you get beyond the buckets of drool, she's great. She's also the only one I'd leave unattended around anyone. They're not usually friendly.