Ruby blushes and squirms a bit, nestling against Sable.

As I said, I only need one liftfruit a month to continue to operate. To run the living quarters for all of you should also be only a single fruit more per month; I was not including it as a 'facility' in my reckoning. Agriculture requires more mana; I would estimate around six lift-fruit a month would be needed to spread the grove further, though at a slow rate. Another half-dozen lift-fruit could enable me to create mana-rich fertilizer that would make the existing liftfruit crops turn out faster, or alternately shed more fruit in each crop. No lift-fruit would be needed to allow it to simply grow naturally at its usual rate.

To run the shipyard at full capacity perhaps twenty-five fruit a month would be needed, but it would be functional to complete the existing ship on ten, if you ran the respective facilities in order.

As for additional facilities, there is the amphitheater, which has many comforts and luxuries to keep visiting dignitaries in comfort and pleasure; the lab beneath this cathedral, where the new breed of lift-fruit was developed, and other holy magic might be researched; the church itself, which is a potent channel to heal and repair that which is injured or broken when the power of the lift-fruit is passed through it; and the great anchors and engines of the island, which prevent this place from being blown about in storms, allow the island to move under its own power, and allow other islands and ships to safely dock without fear of crashing into this one. There are also certain refineries for steel, glass and so on in the ship-yard that might be operated separately from their ship-building purpose to produce other components, which we may need in the coming months. 

This island's moorings have been torn out by a great storm I could not shelter against; it once was in the center of the republic, but now I do not know how far it has drifted. I know that the right direction to search in is southwest, but the speed this island's engines can make on less than a dozen lift-fruits is not at all enviable. Better to finish the existing ship. 

Lily looks over at Hyacinth and flushes slightly.

Hyacinth ducks her head in a nod.

She nods, finishing off her liftfruit. "Gotcha. Prioritize agriculture and living quarters for now, we'll bring you as many liftfruit cores as we can and see about upgrading the agriculture and then adding on more capacity. I assume accurate numbers on the comparative efficiency of speed vs yield in terms of overall production will take fresh data? We'll probably split the grove between both methods for the first crop, to see which lets us exponentiate faster. And do you have details on any advanced capabilities of the agriculture facilities, or are those best investigated on-site?"

Sable tilts her head curiously at Lily and Sin.

"It, um. Is sounding like we'd need to wait for another liftfruit crop, with higher-yield fertilizer, to run the shipbuilding facilities. Which would mean I'd be stuck in chastity for at least a month. Straight. Which is. A while." 

"A little much for my sweet fox?" Sable teases with a grin, before turning to the altar. "Anima, do you have any clues toward the location of a key that matches Hyacinth's cage?"

A key...?

There's a pause for a long moment, then - 

My analysis suggests the lock matches the lock on the Sealed Archives. Those tomes that could not be taken from the lab aboard-ship due to time pressure were instead locked away in a sealed archive, lest they fall into the wrong hands. The key that locked them away... Was on the last ship out, in the possession of the most senior researcher. 

Find that researcher, and you'll find your key.

"Ah. Oh dear."

Hyacinth blushes a deep, deep pink.

Sable smirks at Sin. "Well, it looks like we don't have a quick fix there, unless we wanna try to make lockpicks at the shipyard. I'll try to pace myself on tormenting you, love."

"Please." It seems Hyacinth is already feeling a little desperate given the news she's just gotten.

"Awww, how cute.~" Gloria shoofs Sin's hair and grins.

Meanwhile, Lily finishes her lift-fruit and puts the pit in the bowl. "I don't know what you girls are doing standing around chatting when the island's still pretty compromised. Let's focus on getting cores in the bowl, shall we?"

Hailey nods, putting her pit in the bowl as well. "Everybody, let's go harvest the whole crop. Everything beyond max agriculture accel gets saved to plant."

She strides toward the entrance, wings rustling, ready to take off.

Neo places her pit as well and follows.

"Fruit-picking race!" Ruby dashes out the door. 

Sable and Maya follow at a more casual jog.

"Fruit picking race!" 

Gloria quickly finishes her lift-fruit, then runs after Ruby at a fast clip. 

Lily just gives Sin a firm hug. "You'll be okay. I believe in you. And we'll be gentle." 

"A-alright..." 

Sin finishes her fruit and puts it in the bowl.

After a moment, Lilian leads Sin after Hailey and the rest of them, at a more sedate pace.

Ruby and Neo and Hailey continue on ahead and get a head-start on picking liftfruit, Ruby using dashes to reach higher branches periodically.

Along the way there, Sable drifts back a bit to check on Sin and Lily, and scritches Sin's ears softly. "You doing okay, sweetie?"

She ducks her head. "I... I'm managing. It's just a lot to take in all at once even without the, uh, month's chastity sentence. Keeping moving helps."