[ A few days after the giants retreat, along with the food delivery Coda will find a gift to the right of their door. It's a neon terrarium, about eight inches across and twelve high, enclosing an impossibly tiny bonsai tree with a single full-sized bloom at the top.
Taped to the top is an envelope with a name written in iridescent ink. ]
Coda -
Did you know you can bring things from home with those little tokens? I found out today. This is Yuki, from my garden at home - she's fourteen years old or something like that. One of the first things I grew on my own. She likes colder weather than most flowers. As long as you don't freeze the terrarium solid she'll be just fine. It'll take care of pruning and feeding itself.
I wanted to remind you that sometimes things are good, even if they're not where they're supposed to be, or growing the way they were meant to, if you're careful with them. Even if they should have died out a long time ago.
I also wanted to apologize.
Not about finding you in the maze - though I am sorry we were separated - but for upsetting you, the first time. And the second time for not respecting that you didn't want to talk to me. I guess I'm doing that again, but I can't stand to leave things on those terms. After this, this is the last you'll hear of me unless $doubleneon shoves us together, I promise, if that's what you want.
[ He types and deletes roughly a million responses, ranging from the truly embarrassing - YES!!! - to the unusually reserved I'd like that before he settles on: ]
Then we should talk again when things settle. Promise not to try to feed you.
[There's a bit of a pause, and then they send a video of the plant he'd dropped off, Yuki, on a turntable (odd, it looks very similar to the one from Partycrash Nightclub), spinning in slow, lazy circles.]
In the meantime, I'm getting to know my new friend here.
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[ delivery ] - during the cleanup efforts
Taped to the top is an envelope with a name written in iridescent ink. ]
Coda -
Did you know you can bring things from home with those little tokens? I found out today. This is Yuki, from my garden at home - she's fourteen years old or something like that. One of the first things I grew on my own. She likes colder weather than most flowers. As long as you don't freeze the terrarium solid she'll be just fine. It'll take care of pruning and feeding itself.
I wanted to remind you that sometimes things are good, even if they're not where they're supposed to be, or growing the way they were meant to, if you're careful with them. Even if they should have died out a long time ago.
I also wanted to apologize.
Not about finding you in the maze - though I am sorry we were separated - but for upsetting you, the first time. And the second time for not respecting that you didn't want to talk to me. I guess I'm doing that again, but I can't stand to leave things on those terms. After this, this is the last you'll hear of me unless $doubleneon shoves us together, I promise, if that's what you want.
-Artemis
[Response, via text.]
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Then we should talk again when things settle. Promise not to try to feed you.
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[There's a bit of a pause, and then they send a video of the plant he'd dropped off, Yuki, on a turntable (odd, it looks very similar to the one from Partycrash Nightclub), spinning in slow, lazy circles.]
In the meantime, I'm getting to know my new friend here.
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[ Except wait a minute - he recognizes that turntable. He also goes to Partycrash enough to realize that it's been missing. ]
but we're definitely talking about how you stole a turntable and didn't even invite me.
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[Is borrowing something without asking and getting it back without getting caught nearly as cool? Also a mission Artemis wants in on?]
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