Private Finished nature speaks

Michi stoop up after him, dusting away the dirt and dry grass that stuck onto her clothes. "Well, I guess that means that stock room is as good as ours," she said, as she straightened up, realizing her legs might have nearly fallen asleep by the way she had sat down. "We can go and pick at it now, if you're up for it -- I literally don't have anything on my hands right now. I don't actually have a problem with dust."

Michi followed behind Linus, trying to memorize the underground passage around them. She could see where they had come from when they entered the tunnel earlier on. It was a good thing she wasn't so bad at directions or else she may not even know where to go next time they come back here. The jingle of the keys caught her attention, its noise echoing in the empty tunnels, before the creak of the door did. She was surprised at the contents of the storeroom, which she had honestly only expected to only house old shelves and broken classroom items that. This changes a lot of things, she thought. They could decorate that secret plot with all these, but she didn't want to pester Linus with the idea again. "Yeah? I could furnish a house with this," she told him, walking ahead to inspect them. They were covered in dust, but they didn't even seem used at all. "So, wheres's the gardening tools?"

While Linus searched for the tools they needed, Michi let herself wander the space, inspecting the furniture further. Really, aside from the dust, they seemed like they were brought in but never used. They were just stored here, possibly for back up, but forgotten over time. That, or maybe someone wanted to use this storeroom as a secret meeting room or something like that. Who really knew, but Michi certainly wanted to know. "If it was easy to sneak out furniture, I'd have done it if people have forgotten about this," she said as Linus approached, dusting off one of the end tables. "Seems like a waste if these were just left here to collect dust." Michi reached her hand out, expecting Linus to hand her a hoe or something. "Got everything?"

Michi's hand seem to hang in the air for a bit and for what seemed to be a minute, she assumed Linus wasn't going to give her anything. Shrugging it off, she withdrew her arm back to herself. She'd have used the excuse about carrying some tools to not take any of the furniture in there, but now that she was left literally empty-handed, she was much more tempted to do so. She looked around for a moment, weighing her options. "Maybe some othertime," she said, deciding they could probably work on the plot first before she started getting ideas furnishing the place. "I guess... breaking the ground could be a start for today?" she said. She wasn't sure how planting works, but from what she remembers living in a farm town, preparing the ground for planting was just as important.

Michi stared at Linus longer than what might have been comfortable. At least, maybe for Linus because surely, the silence would have made it really strange, but for Michi and her constant radio noise, it was nothing. "Being real, I have voices in my head. I'm probably not alright up there," she said, rather casually despite it being an unsettling idea for most. Michi swiped the hoe from him before he could take it back or away from her reach. "I'm just saying: I would definitely do manual labor because I need to do something else than sit around and listening to them on loop about jumping out through windows. Unless you don't want to do it today, I'm willing to hear it out."