Oh, probably! But this plant is one that was created to explore the possibility-space, to be an example and lesson for future attempts. Almost the only focus was to get it to make stringy protein in the right way without dying.

"I think it could be grown by early adopters as a novelty product and for pet food."

He lets them wash the seeds and talks about how to properly cultivate them. The Draak are fine with anyone who wants to grow these doing so. It should grow, flower, and fruit within a season. It needs powdered iron oxide fertilizer in thus and such amounts. The meatberries are supposed to turn red when they're ready and yellow when they're no longer safe to eat but that might not be totally reliable. The little seed inside each berry should be edible but might be unpleasant. He gets email explained to him and signs up for one and would appreciate updates.

Do you know anyone else who would want some of these seeds?

"I can get you in touch with some people internationally!"

Excellent! The more people who try these, the more advice we have for attempt two.

The food scientists email people and soon have lots of takers.

He brought dozens of seeds, but not infinitely many. He figures out how to distribute them.

Elsewhere, Bloom has seeds for the botanical garden, too!

The botanical garden is so happy! They show her the plant nursery where they can try to start the plants.

The garden is pretty wonderful. She's a little surprised that they don't grow the plants in their final display area...

"Sometimes they don't take. We do it with ones that have especially good chances."

I see.

Most of these grow in arid but not totally desert conditions with a lot of sunlight. I found some from equatorial regions as well as my own home. They might handle a long year better.

"That makes sense! How arid? Direct sun?"

She can describe this for each plant by leaning on telepathy to send mental images and let them decide on numbers for things. She also tells them what they should look like as they develop.

I also have seeds for many kinds of flowers that I designed myself but I am not actually sure I want to share those.

The botanical greens take a lot of notes. "No? They're - secret?"

Not secret, but... Private. If you have something splendid and perfect, you want it to be unique, so it will be all the better.

The internet and writing a memoir is making me think about fame, though. So many people know about me now, enough that I can't properly picture it, though I was a minor and mostly irrelevant person at home. And that is so because you share everything.

"If you'd like to do something in between giving us seeds and keeping them all to yourself, you could sprout them yourselves and we could put on a special exhibition without you relinquishing ownership of the plants."

I need to think about it a bit more. I'm leaning towards just growing my own garden later and allowing visitors and photographs.

Perhaps I should work on a flower meant for Amenta when I need a break from other things? Flowers are relatively simple and relaxing to do. I don't know what I would make it look like that means 'Amenta', though.

"Does it need to look like us to be for us?"

No. But it needs some kind of symbolic importance, I think.

"I'll look forward to it."

Ink looks for Ruan some time that afternoon.

I have realized a potential problem. Probably we should discuss it now instead of when it rears its head, yes?

"- yes. What is it?"

What will we do if any eggs happen? You see, we do not have birth control, and we don't know how our seasons will work here yet... We could just ban sex at our school and that won't be much hardship but it bears planning about in case someone is an idiot.

"...Tapa found places for a couple without it being a big deal, and we could find places for more. But that won't scale forever."

I see. It's possible they could be taken back to our planet too. I don't think it will happen - certainly not myself - but much better to bring it up just in case instead of being surprised, yes?