Green's Greens ~112 Sunrise Blvd~

-Morning after The Midnight Sun-

Kate hurries to the sound of a man's voice shouting about in the store. She had changed to her usual pink apron and ribbon today, she greeted the newcomer with a wave and a chirpy voice.

"Hiya! Only me here. And the plants, obviously." She tilted her head, slightly confused. "I... Don't really remember asking for help... But, uhh, do ya need money or something? I might have some odd jobs if ya like."

I do need someone to carry around the mold... Plus someone needs to tend the store while I'm working in that other place...

Kate eyes the newcomer up and down, amused and confused in equal measure.  "You'd definitely need some new clothes though..." 

Kate knocks on the helmet. "That doodad ain't gonna help ya when all I got are some waterlilies!" Kate was not sure if the helmet was soundproof but she belted out her sentences, just in case.

"I do need a handyman to carry around some baggage! You think you could do that!?" Kate wiped the glass on the helmet with her palm, then motioned him to take it off.

"Come back here and I'll show ya." Kate leads Coral to the back room where all the excess mould was kept. Also sacks, small and big held seeds for all kinds of plantlife. An assortment of gardening tools were neatly placed on a rack near the back wall.

Kate turned towards her new muscle. She placed her hands on her hips and straightened her back in a failed attempt to appear authoritative. When she realised this, she climbed on an empty box instead.

"I need to make a garden for a client. I've marked all the tools and materials I need with a red X. I need it all delivered to The Midnight Sun. Oh, and I need it done after dark. Do you need directions?"

Kate ponders for a second, scratching her chin. "If you carry all the stuff over there and also help me set up the garden... does 25 gold sound about alright? In the meantime, uhh, why don't ya..." Kate taps her foot on the box, making a deep and quite enjoyable beat while thinking.

"Ooh! I just remembered I have a shipment coming in today! Fertiliser from the plains. You can help the men unload their cargo, put it in those" She points to large barrels of dung sitting in the corner. "and I'll give you two pieces right after. How's that?"

Kate skims over the storage from her vantage point.

"They are leftovers. I bought some extra mould I didn't need, and now its just sitting here. I'm getting to use it soon though. Ya know, the garden and all..." She rubbed her gloves together, smiling gleefully "Its gonna be fuuun...

She stepped down from the pedestal and walked towards the doorway to the greenroom. "Oh, and don't touch anything marked with a white skull. Those seeds will kill you if you disturb them. Instantly. And permanently."

As she left to tend the garden, a carriage could be heard stopping in front of the store.

"They're here! Could ya give them a hand?" Kate's voice could be heard amidst the leaves.

Kate had been watering tulips near the sunflower. When Coral comes, she offers a healthy smile. "You done? Well, here." She puts down the watering can she was holding and takes two coins from inside her apron and hands them over.

"You can take a break now. If you want to change into something more... Easy to move in that's fine. I don't need more help until after the sunset, so come back then."

Kate picked up the watering can and continued her work. "By the way, I never caught your name. I'm Kate. You are..?"

Kate quickly pulls her hand away and gives Coral a startled look. "Okay..." She sticks her eyes to the card. "Aren't you a bit overqualified?"

She slips the card inside her apron and continued: "So, I suppose you have at least some basic knowledge on the properties of some of my exotic greens? Here's a test!" She climbs up on a ladder and points at a red flower bud, latched onto the ceiling. It's at least five feet in diameter, and throbs occasionally, like an extremely slow pulse.

"There! Can you tell me what that is!", she calls down at the explorer extraordinaire.

Kate grins wildly. "Gotcha! Looks like a spider sac, doesn't it?"

She climbs up the ladder and picks up a long metal pole with a spike at the end. "In fact, that is a bud of a Trakaasian Honey Flower!" Kate pokes a hole in the bud, making a trail of honey slowly drip from the bud.

"If its not emptied regularly, it would burst its seeds all over the place. Thankfully, the sap is delicious. Go on, give it a go!" Kate slides down the ladder and graps a bucket labeled 'sap'. She goes in position under the bud, and gathers the sap carefully, not spilling a drop.

"You were partially right though. The honey flower disguises itself as a spider egg, to keep the seeds hidden from predators. To be honest, I was kind of impressed you knew of the Jungle Snatchers." A hint of excitement flashes in her eyes.

Kate smirks and kneels in front of a minuscule white flower. "Well, now that you asked, this here, for example, is called Queen's Mistress, because it..." They would keep talking about exotic lands and the fauna and flora therein, until the sun had finally settled.

"Oh, Its that late already?" She stands up and pulls the gloves to her hands, snapping them loudly as she does so. "We should get moving. There should be a platform with wheels and a handle somewhere here... If you find it, we could use it to move the stuff easily." Kate strolls back to the storage, to sort out the stuff they needed to move.

(OOC: did a little time skip, to speed things up. Hope you don't mind)

"Well, they have some... Let's say, 'side-business' they want me to help them with." She heaves the last bag onto the wheelbarrows. "I think that's all of them, I hope it's not too heavy for you..."

She grabs her coat and her hood from the stand near the door. Before they leave she unties the red ribbon on her hair and replaces it with the black one she received from Madame Naoki. She peeks outside and flips the sign on the door.

"Nobody out there now... Come quick, we need to get to the back entrance without anyone seeing us." With that, Kate pulls down her hood and exits the shop. once they were out the main streets, she would light a lantern to light their way.

(Exit to The Midnight Sun)