A City Garden of Endless Possibilities

[senorita_perfecta]

Who: Isabela and You
What: City walks and brainstorming town garden ideas
Where: Edge’s Town Center
When: The whole month of August
Warnings: Nothing too drastic but there is tons of plant nerding though


Before she had been taken away from her home and family and arrived at Edge, Isabela was in the middle of planning out a community garden for the people living in the encanto to make use of and enjoy the greenery. Now that she got transplanted into a new world, it looks like those plans will be put on hold. Her mind has been preoccupied with thoughts of home and family and of her not so great encounters with the Heartless in the last few weeks.

Now don’t get her wrong, she does enjoy her stay at Edge but she is curious to see what the city has to offer and try to repay the generosity the citizens have showering onto people like her. Then as she goes around the town center, she thinks back on her original community garden plan and wonders if she can contribute to any ongoing garden or similar green space building. She would love to take part of anything city project, especially ones that involve plants, that is her big interest.

Now that would be a great idea as she continues on with her walk, already thinking of suggestions she could come up with.

Comments

[turncoatcait]

Reeve took a deep breath and let it out slowly, fingers pressing together in front of his face and rubbing the bridge of his nose in a weary gesture.

"The on in the middle of the city, where every thoroughfare goes through and both vehicle and foot traffic relies on being open in order for Edge to function?" He said carefully. "I'm afraid without solid proof of concept I can't approve tearing up the pavement and underlying infrastructure to make a garden on that particular location." He said as gently as he could, raising a hand to stall any arguments until he finished.

"There are however a fair few smaller plots of land within a short radius of it that I would gladly see this experiement through on and approve a budget for. I can also include in that budget some large pots for the plaza to bring in some plants, but it would be your responsibility to maintain them as well."

There was a shuffle from a doorway, and the sound of small boots before a bunch of rolled up paper moved towards them. A bipedal cat came around a short cabinet, hoisting the diagrams. "Here ya are! Edge's plannin's and the last reports on the wastes ecosystem!"

"Thank you, Cait. As I was saying, if that is an agreeable compromise I can get that approved for the morning if you wanted to start that early."

[senorita_perfecta]

“Oh okay. Understood, I guess that I didn’t think about making one beforehand. I should remember to do that the next time I would try to make something similar,” Isabela sadly sighs, realizing that she hadn’t come up with a solid proof of concept before the meeting with Reeve first.

But when he told her and Zack that he can let them use one of the smaller land plots for them to try out the idea and look after, there is some hope that she can make the community garden project to come to fruition, just on a smaller scale for now.

“Whoa. You’re letting us to try it out on a smaller plot of land? On the condition that we should do the maintenance for it? Oh thank you so much, we’ll take it. Even if it is on the smaller side, we will take good care of it and make sure that it will thrive.”

[icangothedistancetoo]

"Yes!" Zack grinned. "We'll make it work! Isabela's amazing and I've learned stuff from Aerith! You'll see! It'll be a beautiful place!"

[turncoatcait]

Reeve smiled a bit, chuckling. "Being excited about urban improvement and development projects is the hardest part, and you seem to have that down already. The rest can be taught if you want to get in to the field, and we can always use more Civil Engineers."

Cait pulled himself up on to the desk, plopping on the corner and examining the two of them with a tilt of his head. "Ye know Aerith, Lad?" a ear tilted back in feline thought.

[senorita_perfecta]

“Oh yes, sir. I would love to learn more urban development and improvement and other related subjects as I go. It won’t be easy trying to get a project started and stay well-maintained, but you can count on me and Zack here to make sure that first garden will be a sign of good things to come,” Isabela does her best to reassure Reeve.

This girl is ready to tackle such challenges head on no matter how big or small.

[icangothedistancetoo]

"I sure do!" Zack grins. "Well ... the Aerith from my world," he amends. "I've uh ... never met the one here."

And he nods enthusiastically. "I'll do whatever I can to help! When I'm not fighting monsters and stuff," he adds sheepishly. Monster-fighting has to be done too, if they cause trouble for people.

[turncoatcait]

Cait turned, giving Reeve a look and tail thwacking against the desk as they seemed to have a silent conversation of some sort.

"I've some old textbooks of mine, if you're truly interested Miss Isabella. The basics are still good even if some of the particulars are a bit outdated when it comes to energy sources especially. It's not... a glamorous career, and if you do it right then it tends to go unnoticed, but I've found it to be very rewarding even when shall we say unforeseen events cause your work to be destroyed."

Cait huffed a laugh at that "Unforseen Events my bootstrings, ye can't go callin' Meteorfall destroyin' Midgar an 'Unforseen Event' that casual." He chided, before turning his attention back to Zack.

"As for ye Lad... Aerith's name is powerful magic to the right or wrong ears, and so's yours if what's gone ain't staying gone. Careful of the reflections and you'll be fine. Can't be more specific that that though, fortunes an' all."

[senorita_perfecta]

Isabela is looking rather hopeful upon hearing about the old textbooks Reeve has mentioned that she could take a look into despite how ancient the lessons they offer can be for modern times. Now a work in urban development is not the most prettiest job in the world, but she is done with just merely looking pretty and she is itching to do so much more than just growing pretty flowers all the time.

“Yes please. I would love to read the books and learn everything and anything from them,” she happily smiles, not wanting to disappoint him in her pursuit to give back to Edge and, by extension, Midgar.

[icangothedistancetoo]

Zack is happy for Isabela that she's found a cool job to do. He winces at the mention of Meteorfall and even more when the other Aerith is brought up.

"Yeah.... I heard about the other Aerith and ... and me. The other me's around, so Aerith should be too, somewhere, right? I hope nobody thinks my Seph is the one who ... who hurt her."

Then they might try to hurt him, and that wouldn't be fair at all.