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Hey. I spend a fair amount of time in the orchard, weeding and taking care of plants and stuff. It doesn't need as much work as it would if we were growing it entirely ourselves, but that's no reason not to keep it in good condition. I know I'm not the only one - maybe we could start working together? Coordinate our efforts, I guess.

Plus, I don't even know if half the stuff that grows in there tastes good. I'm wondering if some of it might even be things people would recognize, but there's just so many different things it's impossible to tell. Anyway. Let me know if you're interested.

Oh - and I guess I'm on Sorrow's team. So take a couple minutes out of your day to think about what a waste of time being here is. All the stuff you should be doing at home, all the people you miss, all the shitty things that have happened since you came here and all the great things you're missing out on. Go tell your best friend - sorry, your best cave friend, since your best friend probably isn't here - so you can feel terrible together.

There. Job done. This is ridiculous, I'm pretty sure it's making me sadder than I'm making anyone else.

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I have not been here for long enough to do very much work there, but I have been trying to look after the flower beds of late, when I have the time. I would be quite happy to help!

I've set up a small vegetable patch near the orchard. I can help out at the orchard when I'm done with my plants.

It's great to have the flowers, they make the place a little less bleak. Thanks for looking after them - what's your name?

That would be really helpful. What are you growing?

You probably won't be familiar with them but I'm growing tatos, mutfruit, corn, and some carrots. These are some of the common crops where I'm from.

We've got corn and carrots where I'm from. And - well, potatoes, but that might not be what you're talking about. I've never heard of mutfruit, though.

Tatos are a combination of potatoes and tomatoes, actually. Both potatoes and tomatoes are now extinct by 2287. Corn and carrots have proved surprisingly resilient, although they don't quite look like how they used to 200 years ago.

No one quite knows which fruit the mutfruit evolved from. Current theory posits that it evolved from the blueberry or the blackberry.

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2287, wow. That's quite a bit in the future for me - I guess I'm glad to hear some things are the same.

They're all edible, though?

Weeding isn't difficult. I've done it before.

[... Yes, you read this right. If you squint and look sideways, Mello is volunteering.]

Thinking about what I should be doing instead of pissing about here doesn't make me sad. It makes me angry.

They're edible, but because of an atomic war, all plants carry some measure of radiation.

I've asked Sorrow to remove the radiation from the produce. But to be on the safe side, I'll sample the first harvest.