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After a half-hour stroll through the Botanic Gardens, Julian found the perfect hilltop for the day’s project. He spread his picnic blanket with a flourish, and set about unpacking his flowers from the basket hooked under his arm. After weeks of careful cultivation, he was even more careful to arrange the blooms across his blanket: first by color, and then by size. Once laid out to his satisfaction he could remove the final pieces from his basket — a spool of wire, and an ornate...

Baogonia stepped up and away from the plot to survey her work, wiping the sweat from her brow (and leaving a smudge of dirt in its place). Satisfied with her progress, she stretched against the ache in her muscles from leaning over the ground. There was plenty of hard work left to do before the conservatory would bloom like the fields of the valley, but seeing the buds of new flowers peek out of the soil filled her with the drive to push on. Her empty stomach however, had the oppos...

Having completed the tour of the Botanic Gardens — and appropriately outfitted with a pair of gardening mittens — Saru sat down next to Baogonia as she knelt over a flowerbed. He watched as she dug three tiny holes and planted seeds within them, moving with the finesse of an expert at her craft. Tentatively, Saru pushed his paw into soil and tried to mimic the motion.  Baogonia grinned. “That’s the spirit, flower...