Eela hummed to herself as she gathered the pitcher of water and brought it out onto the patio, setting it beside the glasses on the coffee table she had brought out already. She paused and looked around her patio, smiling to herself. It really was lovely out here and she was glad she had the foresight to get working on it soon after her arrival. Sharah’s help and inspiration had helped greatly too.

The large rectangular space was loosely divided into three ‘rooms’ that acted as extensions of the apartment spaces they flowed from. The dining room was where the doors to the patio were and flowed out into the dining and cooking area in the middle closer to the apartment. The wooden dining table had six chairs and was underneath the pergola, over which an evergreen vine had quickly grown over top and was now starting to bloom with lightly fragrant white and purple blossoms.

The space to the left was a lounge area that you could see from the casual sitting area off her kitchen and had an outdoor couch and chairs around a coffee table plus lounge chairs farther out where one could bask in the sun. To the right was a nook surrounded by containers full of flowering plants that sheltered a space that Eela used for meditation. The rest of the patio had containers and raised beds full of flowers, vegetables and herbs, though at the far end was a storage shed.

It was a lovely day (as it almost always was on a colony that really didn’t have ‘weather’ yet) and as she waited for Mika to arrive for her appointment (and bracing herself for the difficulty that would likely be), Eela was happy to putter and set up a soothing space for them to converse.

~Eela