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[ Guess who's trying really hard to ignore all the more aggressive posts on here. ]

Um.. H-Hi everyone! In case anyone doesn't know yet, I'm M.. Madoka Kaname, nice to meet you.. [ Is she looking more nervous than usually though? For sure. Although that's not because of the mood of the last posts as much as she's dying internally at the thought the whole train can hear and see her right now. ]

M-Maybe some of you might remember that a while ago mister Stark suggested we could put plants around the train.. I thought it'd be a good idea s-since it'd be good for both the air and just for making things look nice, so.. E.. Evie and I volunteered to work on it! But there's only two of us, so..

[ She sucks in a deep breath. You can do it, Madoka. You almost said your piece! ]

We.. could use some help, if anyone wants to help. The boxes all need to be p-put together, and the plants need to be taken care of in the l.. long run too. So I thought maybe we could start a gardening club.. I was part of a gardening club back home at school, so if you don't know what to do, I.. I can help you! But if people already know a lot about plants, it'd be g-great if they could help too..!

Um, of course it's voluntary, but.. i-it'll be fun. I think. And you can work together with Evie too then, and she's really pretty and smart and nice..! [ And, you know, Madoka is also pretty cute. But she apparently has no compliments for herself to spare here.

Also, her face is starting to turn the same colour as her hair by now. ]

I.. I think that's all..! T-Thank you so much for listening to me and I'm sorry for taking up your time-- ouch!

[ She was bowing to end the message politely, but instead just accidentally bumped her head in the process.

She's trying. ]

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[deductionrival]

[Heiji makes a bit of a face, like he's trying not to roll his eyes but partially failing at the mention of the self-proclaimed leader of the train. However, he manages not to complete the expression and kept his mouth on that topic shut.]

There are a number of people around here who can use magic. I bet Curufin could help. I'll ask him later.

[He shrugs.]

It's better to let the plants filter that stuff out of the air than make us breathe it in. We'll just keep any flowering or produce plants out of there. Are there any plants you aren't a fan of?

[happyends]

[ Wow, Heiji, you'll have to learn to deal with your future father in law at some point. ]

.. I don't think so. I kind of like all plants.. [ But she's still thinking about it, humming slightly as she does so. ] Although it'd be better to stay away from the kind of plants that grow quickly and start overtaking everything. The whole train could be covered in them by the time we get back from a mission.

[ Suddenly she seems to realise something. ]

Oh! Do you have any kind of plant or flower you really like? We should try to see if we can get some of those!

[deductionrival]

I think those kinds of things are just in movies.

[Did she really think a regular mound of ground cover would get out of the garden box they set up and start growing right on the ground and walls? He supposed there might be something like that in this weird place, but it seemed unlikely.]

What about something like daisies or roses? Something with flowers would brighten this place up.

[He seems quite surprised that she's asking this, even though really wasn't it inevitable?]

Uh.. no, not.. well I like ones that make food.

[Wow that was a lame answer.]

[happyends]

[ For how lame of an answer it might be, it seems to surprise Madoka at first. Then she almost looks a little hesitant for a moment, unsure of something, but then she smiles. She's trying really hard to not make it seem like she's laughing at him though! She'd feel bad if that was the case! But.. ]

You.. haven't thought much about plants before, huh? [ Judging by that answer. ] T-- That's okay though! Maybe you can end up finding something you really like along the way..?

[deductionrival]

[If he equates it to laughing at him, he sure doesn't seem to think that's a bad thing as he laughs right along with her.]

Not really. I know which ones are toxic and used in poison. And yeah, you never know.

[He already did find something he really liked along the way. He's talking to her right now- not that this idiot realizes that.]