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"I don't know big words, so I can't say if you're right or wrong," Michi replied lightheartedly. She only vaguely knew the word, and for the most part didn't know how to use it. Either way, she felt bad for making him feel bad. Michi considered patting him on the back but tried to keep her hands to herself for now. "Well, I apparently have a mind-controlling voice. Maybe I'll go move to the ocean and lead sailors to their deaths," she joked. Probably a terrible one at the moment.
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"Hey, you'd get hella rich. A single cruise ship, and you'd be set for life." Linus wasn't exactly joking, but he did try to deliver it as lightheartedly as possible. He was dragging the mood down.

He had a bit of a thought prompted by the joke. "Say you were actually that rich. What'd you do with all that money?"
 

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Michi laughed, "Sinking a whole cruise ship? Imagine the publicity. I wouldn't just be rich by then," she added casually. Maybe the joke may be a little macabre, especially considering they were talking valuable human lives here, but it didn't seem to bother her at the moment. She seemed to fall into thought for a few seconds. "Honestly, I've never thought about getting rich so... I never thought about that. I might just end up spending most of it on clothes honestly." Well, she probably would get sick of buying clothes left and right. "Dunno honestly. Maybe donate to charity or something righteous like that? Maybe it'll clean my soul or something. What about you?"
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"That's really nice of you. Me personally, I don't know if I'd be that kinda righteous. Probably spend a bit of it on my parents, and set up a garden or something."

Linus really liked plants. Maybe it was the giraffe speaking, but plants made him feel at home. In fact, now that he was here with someone who suggested changing up this place...

"Maybe I'd put in a few plants here. It's not like anyone would notice anyway."
 

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Michi smiled just a bit. Michi had no family to spend it for, other than her friends which was now the closest she had left. But she had already considered the idea her soul is tainted and she had to do righteous things to right it. But that was probably fantasy. She was already told her condition wasn't so easily reversible, after all. "Plants are nice," she voiced out, not dwelling further on her gloomy thoughts. "Plus they're plants, they'll grow anywhere they want, I don't think it'd matter if anyone notices there's a secret garden down here."
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Linus took a mental note to bring some plants in here next time he showed up. Sadly, all he could do was eat them, not make them spring forth from the barren land here. He began thinking of how much work it would take to make this lot sustain any life.

He picked up a small bit of gravel and rock, letting it fall through his fingers. "Sounds nice, but I'd probably have to put in a lot of time to make it happen. Have to probably import soil, think of fertilizer, and there's no natural water source..."

Linus stopped himself short, realizing he was about to begin rambling. "Anyway. You like the place?"
 

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Michi hummed. She didn't know a lick about caring for plants, despite living half her life in a farming community. She could never remember anything, but she never made that an issue. Maybe she'd learn it after she learned how to cook decent food or something. "Well... if you're going to like... terraform this little plot, I wouldn't mind helping," she said. Though when she first thought about "secret garden" she'd actually thought of potted plants around. She decided not to tell him that bit for now. She smiled through her thoughts, "Oh yeah, I like this place, it's pretty chill. Thanks for showing it to me."
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Well, at least he made someone's day. That was enough to make up for the lost secrecy of the Empty Lot. Linus felt a little pride in that.

He thought of what plants would be nice to put here, and other things. He'd known this place long enough to know that no one else came here. In fact, given the nature of the academy, he wasn't entirely even sure if this place existed for other people.

"Might be fun to make this place sort of our hideout for the cool kids. Even if gardening's not exactly a cool kid thing. I could get this place set up over the weekend..."
 

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"Hey, I think gardening is pretty cool," Michi immediately protested. Sure, she never got into it, but that didn't mean she had a low opinion of gardening. She just happened to have a different priority in mind at the time. Though right now, she feels rather unsure about it, so her next best thing would have been the other things she wanted to do. "Anyway, I'll help, can I help you with bringing in anything?"
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"There's a stockroom we passed by on the way here. If you wanna, we can go pick at it... haven't seen anyone use it in ages. Probably hella dusty."

Linus stood up, waiting to see how Michi would respond. It was hard to tell why he was suddenly so willing to do things, when he had been plagued by malaise for a while. He decided to chalk it up to some unknown ability of his companion, and ride it while it was there.