Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Deck 4 Garden- Sowing Seeds
OOC: For those that missed it, this is description of the garden (there’s an image link too): https://www.star-fleet.com/core/stf1/manhattan/posts/116416/
IC:
Another day off meant filling time, but the one thing she had been looking forward to was working on her garden bed. Checking the sign-up list, the raised beds were being claimed at a decent pace. Not everyone was going to be interested but people seemed more eager than she had expected. And there were quite a few first time gardeners from the brief chats she had had with people. It reminded her that she and the botanical staff should go forth with some of the gardening classes they had been discussing.

Which brought to mind Luke’s idle comment about maybe starting his own bed, or at least helping and learning with someone else’s. In her mind there was no better way to learn than to try it yourself and make mistakes and learn what to do better next time. So she sent a text message:

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To: Lieutenant Wyatt, Luke
From: Lieutenant Calloway, Faye
Subject: Garden Beds

Hey Luke. The raised beds on the left side of the garden nearest the greenhouse and storage are going pretty fast. If you are still interested in one of those I can hold one for you, but I would recommend coming down and picking which one you would like yourself. I’ll be working in the garden all day. Drop by anytime.
~Faye

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Sending that off, she set about dressing with the intention of likely getting dirty: grey cargo pants, black tank top and hiking boots. She pulled her brown hair into a ponytail and on the last twist of the elastic only half pulled her hair through so it hung in a loop, tidying out of the way of dragging in the soil. On a whim thought, she put on her IDIC necklace, the silver chain the only thing visible as the pendant hung beneath her shirt.

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Luke had just finished a busy day at work, he’d reformed the security department and himself to better reflect the conversation he had with Cochrane. When he sat down and saw he had a messaged he opened it instantly out of curiosity more than anything and smiled when he saw it was delivered by Faye. Reading it he quickly went about to change to take her up on her offer.

A large seedling tray was balanced on each arm as Faye stepped out of the turbolift and moved along Deck Four. Stepping through the large double doors, she was instantly hit by the smell of green and earth and all things growing. It made her smile.

One of the perks of having designed the space and taken the lead on the whole thing was that she had snagged her bed first. It was one of the ones closest to the greenhouse and storage area and that mean less distance to haul equipment and soil. She might not be adverse to hard work but she preferred efficiency where possible. Setting the trays at her bed, she moved over to the equipment room and grabbed w wheelbarrow and a big shovel. Then she wheeled it over to the large compost pile and began to shovel it into the wheelbarrow. As she worked, she hummed an old tune, a Bajoran folk song she only knew the melody to and could never bring herself to research the words.

~Faye Calloway

Having changed into something that would better suit gardening in the form of some dark blue jogging bottoms, grey top and trainers Luke entered the Arberteum. He remembered the last time.e he was here and what it led to, it was a few days since then and Luke had been trying to put it to the side, but on his way to meet Faye it was hard to avoid he fact of what happened.

He followed the path until finally the garden beds came Into view and so did Faye, “Hey you, I didn’t want to miss out on a plot so decided to come right away.” Luke thought how good she looked though his mind wanted to wander to other places.

• Lt Luke Wyatt