Posted by Ensign Kaia (Engineering Officer) in Side Sim, Questions in the Arboretum

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Side Sim, Questions in the Arboretum

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Calloway was quiet as she laid out the plugs for Kaia to plant, spacing them it appropriate intervals. “You haven’t been a bad friend. In fact, I always assumed it me who was the terrible friend, but as I’ve been sacked in the face with a lot lately nothing everything is cut and dry, one way or another. Sometimes it just… is. So you won’t get any blame or judgement form me. What matters is that you’re here now.”

Sitting back on her heels for a moment, Faye considered the Raka. “I’ve never been good at trusting people, Kaia. If they tried to get close, I would do just about anything I could to sabotage the situation, make it so that they proved my point. There are a lot of reasons for it all, but I think I’ve just gotten to a point where it’s too exhausting. It clearly wasn’t working out in my best interests and it wasn’t doing anyone else any good either, so I’ve decided I’m trying things differently. But expect it to be a bit… messy at times.”

~Faye Calloway

Kaia listened. “Well… No time like the present to start trusting, right?” she asked, planting the plugs as instructed. “What kind of plants are these?” she asked, lifting one of them for a moment before sliding it into the hole dug into the dirt for it.

Kaia, Eng.

“Lobularia,” Faye said. “Also known as alyssum. They create these mounds of tiny flowers that will spill of the edges. I always thought it was very pretty and pollinators like them. Not that we have pollinators in here, but.. yeah,” she said with a light laugh.

“So, while I’ve been occupied with others things, what’s new with you?” Calloway asked.

~Faye Calloway