SINCE WE'VE BEEN ALRIGHT ☆ o, plant display

[redvox.]

REDVOX "VINNY" ABRAMO - cis male - goat-bat hybrid - harbinger

Vinny was honestly pretty surprised by how fascinated Aslisk seemed to be with the wide variety of plant life all around her, although it wasn't an unpleasant sort of surprise. She sniffed and prodded them as closely as she could without setting anything ablaze, and while the harbinger could feel his body tense up the slightest bit when she leaned near some of them, he willed himself to be calm. The wyvern was smart enough to know not to set a bunch of their plants on fire and he knew it, so he just needed to chill out. He silently repeated this to himself in his head, gradually feeling his shoulders slump and relax as he did so. When Aslisk spoke up again, the hybrid found himself blinking before he snorted, easily able to tell that there was no real fire behind Aslisk's teasing insult. He had seen her at some of her worst moments when it came to anger, and this hardly constituted even a one on that scale. She was just riling him up for her own amusement, which honestly made him feel more at ease than anything else. At least he was used to that. Shifting around a little bit, Vin sniffed at one of the pretty blooms nearby before he spoke, shaking his head, "Well, I suppose that next time I'll be sure t'go t'you before I go putting together a plant display. Just so that I know when I've used enough different plants, ya know?" He smiled jokingly over at her, wondering what had made her snort as well. Sometimes it was hard to read what was going on in Aslisk's head, despite the wyvern seeming like such an open book at first glance.

It was after this that Aslisk chose to ask about the lab, cutting herself off before she seemed too stupid. It wasn't actually really a bad question, considering Redvox himself hadn't really known about hydroponics until they had discovered the lab on the territory, and he had thrown himself into combing through every book inside. Shrugging his shoulders a bit, the harbinger sort of half assedly attempted to explain, "Hydroponics is... well, it's essentially this human science that th'humans who used to live here were usin'. Instead of using soil, the humans just had the plants growin' upright in these big containers of nutrients. It's all real complicated, 'n' I don't quite understand fully myself, but it seems like th'plants are still growin' fine, so we leave 'em there." That was the best explanation he could really come up with on the fly, without a whole spread of books out in front of him. He was very caught off guard when the regent continued speaking, asking something he had never thought he would hear from her. She wanted to take some of the plants? Vinny found himself in a sort of stunned state for a long moment, just staring at her, before he finally spoke, quickly shaking himself out of his shock, "Uh... yeah, yeah, of course y'can take some of th'extras. We're hardly hurtin' for plants at th'moment, and y'can set up like, your own little garden, if y'want." He hardly saw any sort of problem with it, considering she was clearly serious about not setting the things on fire, and not everything had to return to the lab.