Public Service - On the Edge, Monday, Period 2

[raspberryturk]

Reno was going to try to keep this relatively short and sweet today - he had no intentions of bursting into song in front of his students today, thanks. So he just waved everybody through the portal, and then led them down one of the long alleyways to one of the city's few little patches of sunshine.

There he stopped, and waved at something that would have been absolutely unremarkable anywhere else in the world. It was little and yellow and frighteningly delicate looking, barely alive.

"Don't step on the flower."

In case anybody around here was even remotely like him, maybe.

"There are only two places around here where these grow, yo. This ain't never been one of 'em. And I'll let you all get back to construction this week if you wanna - it's going pretty good - but we gotta talk about this. If the locals find it, maybe they'll take care of it, maybe they won't. The flower itself ain't the point here, though. It's the ground under it."

Hopefully his students saw what he was getting at, here.

"Maybe there are other ones out there. Maybe there's something to this. One tiny frigging buttercup is godsdamned revolutionary around here, yo. The ground's been dead in and around Midgar for decades." A beat. "Discuss."

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Re: Discuss!

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She nodded, giving him a grateful smile. The sooner she could get out of this cast--and this rib tape--the happier she'd be. Later. He could hear the whole sordid story later.

"If you cook it, it's not terrible," Kathy said. "And the sap can be used for glue. But I think burdock is a better idea. The leaves and roots are edible, the stalk can be twisted into fibers, and you can brew it into a tea to dispel toxins and treat skin diseases and destroy bacteria and stuff."

Re: Discuss!

[not_every_mage]

"If it's easy to grow I'm all for that one," Anders said. "It's an all-in-one plant. We won't do better."

Re: Discuss!

[spin_kick_snap]

"Grows well in sandy waste areas," Kathy said. "And I think it's pretty fast to grow. I mean, I'm no botanist, but it's something we could look into."