...Hugs are very nice.

"It was...  A silly thought, but one I couldn't stop thinking about once I had gone and thought it, even so."

"Cheap to check and absolutely worth it for helping you. You're really important to us, and we wanna do everything we can to do right by you."

The hugging shall continue until...

Probably until they go to bed, honestly.

...She's not sure that anyone has ever said that to her, before.  Not in so many words.  Or so few words?  Idioms can be confusing.  (...Not that all of class A - yes, including Bakugou, once he got his head screwed back on - wouldn't go to absurd lengths for eachother.  It had just snuck up on them, rather than being something they openly said.)

And the hugging can absolutely just keep on going, as far as she's concerned.  At least until the sun starts to 'set' and she realizes that gardening at night would be kind of silly.  She does want to get those seeds planted.

Yeah, the Pirates just kind of feel things loudly. They're just sort of Like This.

They'll keep hugging until it's gardening time, and then help with the planting.

Two of these seeds are going to go into the ground, as a normal tree would - spaced out next to the parent tree.  She's also going to put a cutting from tree #1 into the ground, to see what happens.  But the other two seeds (and a cutting), she is going to try to make into trees that are as small as possible - and this requires pots, and soil, and most likely some rather specialized pruning shears.

Ruby's going to look away as Momo makes the pots and shears, because no she is not going to ogle her maybe-eventually-girlfriend-if-she's-lucky. Also she's shy.

No, she's just going to work on the in-the-ground ones while Momo does that.

Ruby continues to be utterly adorable.

"The question," she spontaneously declaims, "is whether these cuttings will count as new trees, as far as the rules about how they fruit are concerned - and, I suppose, whether they will take at all."

"Good question! Also how many fruits will the little ones grow if they grow any?"

"Hopefully, five!  It's not like the rules say that there is a size at which the trees are fully grown, after all, just a timeframe!"

"Yeah! That'll probably tell us things about how the rules work!"

Okay planting these isn't hard. They're pretty much done.

"Do we wanna do the tree-watching shifts thing tonight?"

"We'll have the most time to recover from doing it, if we do it now."

Ruby pouts a bit. "Not really tired. Today's been so exciting and it's still early."

She sits down though.

"...When do you normally go to sleep?"

"Try to wind down around twenty-one hundred, try to get to sleep around twenty-two, usually slide a half-hour or more?"

"I could probably do the late watch, then, if you want to do the early one."

"That works! Huh, I wonder if the Company scroll has an alarm. Or you could just wake me up when you get tired."

"I meant the other way around, but we should have an alarm for us to change over, I think.  Or you should just wake me when the trees start doing their thing."

"That works! 'when they start doing something' is an easy time to wake you up for. Would have a hard time remembering to wake you up just for a shift change though, so I'm setting an alarm for midnight, and we can turn it off if they start doing stuff before that."

Poke poke the scroll. Does it have an alarm?

Yes.

Okay, alarm at 00:00.

Great.

"Aaaand set."

"Thank you, Ruby.  I'm going to go change and then sleep.  It's been...  Quite a day."

And so she does.

"G'night, Momo. It really has."

She will not watch Momo change, but if Momo is out of the tent at any point after changing into PJs she'll look over to see what she wears to sleep.

"Goodnight."

Alas for Ruby's curiosity, Momo doesn't.

Oh well!

She spends the remaining hours making notes about shopping lists for different types of worlds, and for powers or upgrades they should prioritize: crop/herb/spice seeds anywhere (for culinary variety), aquaculture books in a modern world, fish once they have aquaculture figured out and maybe space for it, extra skyblocks when they're ready to prioritize separating housing from farming and need more space, architecture books in a modern world, design plans for pieces that a house can be assembled out of, media libraries in a really modern world, big dump of all the fandom.com wikis, Kyoka for the very first ten points they've got, Communication Talent at some point to cover languages other than English and Japanese and JSL, probably some of the Defenses, and Talent Sharing, but they'll have to talk with Momo about those. Definitely want to pick up some kind of crop-boosting artifacts or magic in some world or another, so they can make other kinds of food keep up with persine production rates and have more food variety.

Eventually, one of the times she looks up (just after 23:00), Ruby notices some flower buds on the tree. She snaps a picture with the scroll phone Smart Device, then goes to the tent.

She reaches down to shake Momo's shoulder. "Hey, Momo, we've got flower buds."

"I know I asked for this and yet I somehow regret my choices," she gets out before slipping out of the sleeping bag, wearing a light silk robe.