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Public Service - On the Edge, Monday, Period 2
"Okay, class," Reno said, talking today as he led his students through the portal on the Causeway, "part of the ruins have been called safe for the day, so I'm gonna take you on a little nature walk. You see, the plants that we saw growin' in Edge aren't the only ones to be found in the city. They're just the new ones. There's one place - and one place only - that's always had flowers growin' in it, even back before Edge, when Midgar was still standing."
The portal opened up and dropped the class off in the middle of the ruins, overlooking what was left of a church.
"I said it before, and I'll say it again - Don't step on the flowers."
Thank you for that, Reno.
"See, years back, when this place was still standin', a girl used to take care of these plants. They were miracle flowers even then, growin' in Midgar's dead soil. Turns out she was the last of a race we call the Ancients, so she had a connection with the planet that meant all she really had to do was, I dunno, ask nicely, and flowers would grow. Remember, Midgar was a two-tier city, so she was growin' these things in dead dirt, with polluted water and no view of the sun or sky. She died since, in order to save the planet. In the end, she's really the one who stopped the Meteor from killin' everyone, so this place is kinda... sacred, yo. That's why people ain't doin' anything with this."
There was a moment of silence, and then Reno gestured to a massive sword, easily as tall as any one of the people in the room, wedged into what would have been the pulpit, among the flowers, past a huge puddle of water.
"And that sword belonged to her dead boyfriend, who gave some amnesiac little shit the stupid idea that the kid was really him. Seemed to work out, anyway. The kid went on the save the world."
Cloud and Zack got afterthoughts, yeah. Reno never much liked either of them.
"I could keep talkin' about this place, about how the Ancient went about curin' plagues from here and all that. I figure I won't bore you for the rest of the class, yo. Poke around the ruins if you want, or the church. Don't touch anything that looks important or I'll have to kick your ass. Who knows, maybe if you sit and listen, you'll be able to, like, hear the Ancient singin' to her flowers or something."
You wouldn't, by the way. The one day Reno had decided to do this just so happened to be the one day Aerith was taking off to go to a convention for dead people back on the island with her dead boyfriend.
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The portal opened up and dropped the class off in the middle of the ruins, overlooking what was left of a church.
"I said it before, and I'll say it again - Don't step on the flowers."
Thank you for that, Reno.
"See, years back, when this place was still standin', a girl used to take care of these plants. They were miracle flowers even then, growin' in Midgar's dead soil. Turns out she was the last of a race we call the Ancients, so she had a connection with the planet that meant all she really had to do was, I dunno, ask nicely, and flowers would grow. Remember, Midgar was a two-tier city, so she was growin' these things in dead dirt, with polluted water and no view of the sun or sky. She died since, in order to save the planet. In the end, she's really the one who stopped the Meteor from killin' everyone, so this place is kinda... sacred, yo. That's why people ain't doin' anything with this."
There was a moment of silence, and then Reno gestured to a massive sword, easily as tall as any one of the people in the room, wedged into what would have been the pulpit, among the flowers, past a huge puddle of water.
"And that sword belonged to her dead boyfriend, who gave some amnesiac little shit the stupid idea that the kid was really him. Seemed to work out, anyway. The kid went on the save the world."
Cloud and Zack got afterthoughts, yeah. Reno never much liked either of them.
"I could keep talkin' about this place, about how the Ancient went about curin' plagues from here and all that. I figure I won't bore you for the rest of the class, yo. Poke around the ruins if you want, or the church. Don't touch anything that looks important or I'll have to kick your ass. Who knows, maybe if you sit and listen, you'll be able to, like, hear the Ancient singin' to her flowers or something."
You wouldn't, by the way. The one day Reno had decided to do this just so happened to be the one day Aerith was taking off to go to a convention for dead people back on the island with her dead boyfriend.
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Lecture!
But seriously, don't step on the flowers. And you probably shouldn't try to haul up the sword, either.
You can play in the water, if you like, so long as you're not taking a piss in it or anything. It's got mad crazy healing properties, if you've got anything from a broken bone to the sniffles to a horrible plague infested with tainted alien cells something something Sephiroth.
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A scrap of scripture ran through his head as he explored, carefully not stepping on anything but rocks and dirt. And she will know no fear of death, for the Maker shall be her beacon and her shield, her foundation and her sword.
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As a result, she took even more care not to step on the flowers as she explored the place afterward; she would have been careful about it one way or another, even without the added reflexive reverence that came from being in a sacred place. She found herself thinking of the Petit-Picpus convent, and wondering if she wanted to know what had become of it. Oh, nothing quite as dramatic as this, she was fairly sure, but it could be sad.
Without consciously realizing it, she was softly singing one of the hymns she remembered from the convent as she moved slowly through the ruins.
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It was a very calm place, and the air seemed cleaner here.
Talk to Reno!
Don't, like, drop a wall on yourselves or anything. We are pretty far into the ruins.
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I was a terrible person that day. :D
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... I regret re-watching the end of Crisis Core yesterday. But besides that, I REGRET NOTHING.
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(Yes, yes you would. I do.)