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Poking around. [Open]

Today would find the Farseer hock-deep in uprooted dirt and grass. She was humming to herself as she dug, working out a little garden plot for herself in an undisturbed corner of Hydroponics. Her frostsaber lay sprawled out of reach of flung dirt-clods, sleeping peacefully, though every once in a while an eye would open to check on his mistress' progress.

"Aiie, Snowy," she said when he opened an eye again. "I really should have tried to invest in some tools while I was down on that planet." The 'saber just heaved a great sigh, and nestled his head against his paws.

"You're no help."

At least she was finding enough rocks to edge her garden, so it wouldn't look like some beast had decided to go on some haphazard digging spree...

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She looks up in thought and laughs lightly. "I... I guess if you see it that way.. Then yes! I'd love to have some. I can make a plot and tend to them!" She smiled cheerily.

"I would love to have a gardening buddy. I think that is what it is called," Alastirra said, brows furrowing slightly.

"I am Alastirra. I am fairly sure I saw you on the planet we were on last, but I do not think we met." But she offered the girl a smile anyway.

She smiled and nodded at the idea. "I'd like to get along with more Azerothians. Always had, even back home with all the wars and discrimination."

"A pleasure to meet you Alastirra. I'm Ronnae, Ronnae 'Mash Belore Ryllos." She nods her head slightly.

Alastirra laughed. "I do try to get along with the others here. I do not see why I should make trouble, when all we are wanting to do is meet the same goal--getting our world back, yes?"

She waved her hands a little, then. "Not that I was a trouble-maker back home either. The human king may have decided we were at war with the Horde, but I am not a human. Velen sees far."

She smiled. "I wish more were like you. It would have eased so many of the wars and strife we had back home. We accomplished so many things when we worked together."

"That is the way it usually works," Alastirra sighed. "Then again, for some, it is harder to get over old injuries and hatreds, because they look only to the past, and not forward. It is sad, but...what can we do, save work to give the naysayers reason to change their minds?"

The shaman shrugged.

She was definitely more at ease around Alastirra after hearing her speaking like that. It mirrored a lot of her desires as far as the conflict back home. "Hopefully we can do the same here on the ship. If the crew doesn't get along we won't have a chance at dealing with the Ohm."

"I hope so, but it is like...herding cats, I think I have heard it said." And Alastirra couldn't imagine trying to herd a bunch of either small felines, or worse, frostsabers, anywhere.

Snowy, her own 'saber, had opened one eye to regard his mistress, but only stretched out slightly and closed his eyes again.

"Laziest frostsaber in Darnassus...or anywhere in the worlds!" she murmured at him, mockingly.

"They tend to be, sabers anyways. Many of my friend's sabers like lounging around taking naps whenever!" She laughed lightly.

"So does he! As you can see! So for the most part I leave him here in Hydroponics. I figure he cannot hurt anything here...well, save the things that are meant to be wild and eaten." Alastirra shrugged.

"Let me see then," she half-murmured to herself, fumbling about in her bag once again.

She giggled and gave a friendly glance over at the frostsaber. "He's jus' making the best of this all. And that's a good idea having him rest here. Must be the one of the nicest areas on the ship."

"I think, no matter where we go, that is what he does," Alastirra admitted. "Makes the best of it. Outland, Northrend, what have you."

"So, Queen of the Night and sunflowers, though I have no miniature ones--perhaps I will have to try for some. I think I will have to grow some of my own sunflowers as well. I like the seeds as a topping for fresh greens. Are there any other flowers you can think of that you would like? I have some night dragon seeds as well."

She laughed at the comment smiling.

"Oh! Night Dragons are nice, Songflowers would be really neat too. I loved looking at those when wandering Felwood. It was nice seeing some pleasant flora in such a devastated place."

"As it happens, I have some of both. And windblossoms as well, though those, perhaps, should go in my section, with the berries and all." Alastirra chuckled.

"Oh, do you like moonberries? Should I try to get a few bushes to grow? Moonberry juice was mighty tasty," she said.

Her eyes lit up and she nodded happily. "I love fruits so much, specially the ones back home. The mangoes and berries and the ones from Stranglethorn!"

"It would be a good change to the slop too. Oh, that is palatable, of course, but...anything to change it up, by Velen's barbels!" Alastirra said, imploringly.

"Oh yes! Anything over slop. Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful we even have food that keeps us going and healthy. But man they could not have gotten anything better than slipping an Azerothian Slime down your throat?" She giggled lightly.

"It is worse than Black Jelly, and I do not say that lightly." Alastirra made a face. Borean Man o'Wars looked bad enough, but they were worse cooked.

"Well, hopefully we will be able to have bread of some sort at some point, and pumpkins and so on. Something that is more substantial than goo!"

"That would definitely boost morale! Nothing like a home cooked meal. That doesn't look like something that came out of a fel pool." She joked cheerily.

"Can you think of any vegetables or fruit you might like to plant? I do not have mango seeds, but...as that is a tree I think it is more likely we can find trees in Hydroponics if we look." Alastirra had seen a couple of likely looking trees that she was not familiar with as she'd searched for a spot to plant her garden. She suspected that the tree she had planted hers near was some sort of odd conifer--it had needles of a lovely shade of blue-green, but they were high up on the tree and not as bushy as some she was used to.

"Well, if it has anything like pine nuts it might be nice," Alastirra said, thinking out loud.

She looked up in thought before smiling, "Tundra Berries! Or Snow Plums. I loved those so much! It'd be pretty awesome if we could get those to grow here."

"We may be able to," Alastirra said. "Though since the climate here is fairly mild compared to Northrend it might take some tending. And probably they should be planted beneath the tree a bit more. Too much exposure to sun might harm them, since the sun is more indirect the further north you go, yes?"

Clearly the shaman had given it a bit of thought.

Ronnae looked up in thought before nodding. "That sounds good. I could also work on something to keep the area cold, like remember those Snomaster 9000's that Greatfather Winter would send schematics of to engineers? I could make one and keep it running keeping the area snowy. That should be good for them I think?"

"It could, but if we are going to do it that way, we should probably give them their own section, as I think that the snow would be bad for some of the other plants. Still, it is a good idea!"

"And we could also plant other cold weather plant life too! There were a lot of great medicinal herbs in the north that couldn't grow in temperate areas. They'd be greatly beneficial to our science and medical department. Maybe even in Engineering since some of our flora had elemental properties!" Yeah she was excited.

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