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Plants: Thursday Period One

Nell waited for the class at Portalocity today where she'd ~~handwavily~~ told them to meet. "Good morning, everyone," she said when they'd all arrived. "Today we're heading to one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the world.

"Kew Gardens in England is a UNESCO World Heritage site with over 50,000 living plants." Pretty much a dream for Nell. "We'll be visiting Temperate House, which is the world's largest greenhouse. It's home to 1,200 species of plants from all over the world. There are over 3,000 plants including some from remote places such as St. Helens and Pitcairn Island.

"You can check out the loneliest plant in the world and a plant grown from a 203 year old seed. After that we'll check out Kew's Kitchen Garden before heading over to try some of those vegetables and fruits at the Botanical Brasserie."

She smiled at them. "It's a lot to see, so let's get going."

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Ready to see a lot of plants!

Eleanor Zarrin

Gladiolus Amicitia

Nell is quite envious of the amazing greenhouse and the beautiful kitchen gardens.

Eleanor was feeling very glad that this week's class involved a field trip rather than an intense or detailed lecture, because she didn't think she'd be able to pay attention to it as much as she would have liked this morning. But wandering around and enjoying beautiful plants while maybe picking up a useful or interesting tidbit here and there when something caught her enough to break through the little happy fog of last night? That sounded just about perfect, really, and she even took a few pictures with her phone, as well, maybe to share with Lydia since she'd invited her to the gardens in Vegas.

Does the food taste better when you know so much of it is grown on the grounds? Nell has arranged to have the vegetarian tea on the menu served a little early to accomodate the class.

Gladio had to admit, he was definitely much more interested in the food than the gardens; his taste in plantlife leaned much more toward the wilderness than the cultivated, but he was always pretty happy with nearly any kind of food. He had a pretty healthy respect for sustainability, too, considering how much of a miracle it became to even have fresh green vegetables in the leaner years of the Long Night.

"Coulda picked one of the other teas," Nell said, "But I thought it would be good to really try as many of the things grown here as we could."

"My first real English tea."

"You know," Gladio realized, tilting his head slightly over a sandwich made even more quaintly tiny in his massive hand, "I think it might actually be mine, too? I mean, sure, plenty of teas before in my life, but never an English one, if we're making the distinction."

He took a bite which consumed about half the sandwich, grinned at Nell, and then looked over the offering. "A good light snack."

Just the visual of Gladio with the tiny English tea sandwich in his hand amused Nell.

"I think you could eat pretty much the whole menu here without filling up too much," she said with a smile. "But then I think the tea part is supposed to be just sort of a tide you over till dinner thing. And, of course, we'll be eating well thois afternoon if Oggy has anything to say about it."

"Yeah," Gladio agreed, "there's no way Iggy's class will disappoint on that front. And I know a good part of sustainability and the whole eating-what-you-grow thing is not to go too overboard. Can't beat the location or the company, either."

~~Oggy? What the?~~

"I don't think they have that problem here," Nell said, "But it sure was important back home. Which all would have been better with the right sort of company."

Which meant Gladio. Obviously.

Don't mind Eleanor just sitting there, enjoying her sandwiches and tea and looking literally anywhere else during this teatime. At least there waYs plenty to look at, though!

"I know a lot of things," said Gladio, "that would have been better with the right sort of company."

Which, sure, he had Prompto and Ignis, always, and he'd had Iris and Aranea and Cindy and Cor back home, but he definitely meant Nell, too. Obviously.

He then looked around a little and jerked his chin toward the gardens. "You get any new exciting ideas from this place?"

Nell nodded over at Eleanor. "I think between Eleanor and I, maybe we can grow some of those heirloom vegetables - or at least get 'em started so we can sell the seedlings to other people. Think you'd be willing to help me with that, Eleanor?"

Nell is around, taking in as much of everything as possible, but she's more than happy to chat or answer any questions.

Once they were pretty much wrapping up here at the gardens and about to head back, Gladio just had one question remaining, and he was pretty sure Nell could guess pretty easily what it was.

"Walk you to your next class?"

"Yes, please," Nell said, slipping her hand into his. "I get to go be massaged now, but I'll be thinking of yours the whole time."

"You know," Gladio said, squeezing her hand a little as he gave her a proud sort of nod, both for himself in being damn good at giving Nell massages and for her clearly agreeing with that, "I'm half-tempted to try and crash in this week for a massage of my own, but maybe I can just wait until you're done and you can show me what you learned before we head off for Iggy's class."

Of course there was a wink there.

And, honestly, he was tempted, but he also liked for Nell to have that particular class for herself, because that was what it was all about, right?

Besides, he felt there was a good chance that Lils and Igs were probably absolutely insufferable during a good chunk of it, too.

"Oh, can't you just see what liliana would do if you showed up," Nell said with a grin. "She'd probably want you to have a demonstration massage right in front of everyone."

She swung her hand in his as they walked. "But I think... I think we should wait till after Iggy's class for the demonstration. Because I'd want to take the time to make sure I covered all the steps and that's something you just don't want to rush."

And she followed that with a kiss.

Gladio wouldn't have needed all that much convincing, but he was happily going to take it, grinning into that kiss and taking his time with enjoying it. After all, if you were going to be late for a class about treating yourself, then could the teacher really complain if this was going to be the reason?

"Can't argue with that," he said, still grinning as he pulled back back. "I can definitely wait. Maybe I'll just hit the gym in the meantime, to give you something to really work with. And I'd be a great subject for demonstration massages; think of how easy it is to see what muscles you're working with, right?"

"Mmm... You would be a great demonstration model," Nell said dreamily. "But I might end up a little jealous - somebody else with their hands all over you while the class looks on. Or maybe I'd be tempted to pull you away and do something very class inapporpriate and you know Liliana would never forgive me for pulling focus in her class."

She grinned at him. "Yep, you hit the gym and then I can daydream about that whil I'm getting my massage."

Nell's coming home with soooo many seeds and seedlings!

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