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Pamela Isley | Poison Ivy ([personal profile] chlorophylliac) wrote2015-06-15 09:13 pm

30 ❦ Video

[Ivy is sitting in the lovingly upgraded greenhouse, on the edge of the fountain pool she's created at the centre, and absolutely nobody was surprised. There's a plant/animal hybrid on her lap; anatomically a small rabbit, but what it's covered with is more like moss than fur and its eyes are completely black.]

The first greenhouses used on Earth were recorded by Pliny the Elder, two thousand years before my time.

The Roman Emperor Tiberius wanted cucumbers all year round, so, his gardeners made it happen. Their specularium predated the invention of glass; they used oiled cloth or sheets of mica. They weren't used constantly, only at night, to protect the plants from the cold after they'd had the benefit of the sunlight during the day.

More sophisticated versions appeared over a thousand years later. The Vatican, in the thirteenth century, to house plants brought as trophies from tropical exploration. Korea, two centuries afterward. What my contemporaries would consider a modern greenhouse didn't appear until the eighteen-hundreds.

By my time, commercial technology allows plants to be grown out of season, thousands of miles from the environments where they evolved, untroubled by parasites or predators or the vagaries of the weather. Even the most diseased specimens can heal in a place designed for precisely that.

[She falters, briefly, gaze going out of focus. It looks like she's fighting something off, consciously or otherwise.]

Which is perfectly fine, if all you want is something that will thrive in an artificial environment. But when you return it to its home -- with all the threats and dangers that plant is subject to --

[Ivy tunes out again, gaze going flat and empty.]

The following Warden and Inmate have been paired:

A.J. Crowley // [personal profile] sauntervaguelydownwards → Arthas Menethil // [personal profile] darknessb4me

The warden should expect a file to be delivered to his cabin shortly. Please familiarize yourself with the information therein and introduce yourself to your new Inmate as soon as possible.

[She blinks slowly, coming back to herself.]

Sometimes the rot runs particularly deep, of course. I hope you'll be very happy together.
thelastbullet: (reciting poetry or sth)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-16 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think we have.

James Darmody.
thelastbullet: (ready to drink)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-16 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Late November, if I'm judging the festivities right. You?
thelastbullet: (what did you just say)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-16 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Guess that's not too bad, compared to Arthas. [It is definitely too bad, the thought of being here for about two years is not a fun one.]
thelastbullet: (Half a gangster)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-16 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Good to know there's always someone who has it worse, right?
thelastbullet: (some scepticism seems in order)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-17 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He considers it for a second, then shrugs.] I guess you're right.
thelastbullet: (He left)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-18 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
You think that's the reason why so many of 'em stick around as wardens?
thelastbullet: (Make your calls)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-18 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
[For that matter, so does Jimmy: he knows he's changed, considerably, and he knows what he would ask for if he stayed on as a warden.]

That doesn't sound like something a warden would say.
thelastbullet: (mm yes oedipus what of it)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-18 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
One assumes so.

Would you do it, Miss Ivy?
thelastbullet: (this is how it's gonna be)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-18 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. If the mysterious graduation ever happens- I might. [Though he still doesn't think it'll happen anytime soon, and he still has no idea what would have to happen before he could graduate.]

What are you planning?
thelastbullet: (Is that so?)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-18 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
So you could graduate and come back a week later, back to being an inmate? [He... could see it happening for himself. Probably the reason he's still an inmate.]
thelastbullet: (got a bigass knife)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-19 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
[He smiles a little and inclines his head to concede the point.]

So no plans, then?
thelastbullet: (Literature thougths)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-06-20 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
You still want the same things you did before you came here?

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