Upon awakening from her latest nap, Petal flies to the window, bonks her antlers gently against it, observes once again the lack of response, and says, "Help?"

"When you harvest things you fall asleep," says Suvi. "Can we talk first?"

"...talk first," she allows.

They will go through their questions!

Can they pet her? Yes.

Is the nest comfy? Yes!

Why does she sleep so much? "Sleep before harvest!"

How will harvesting the eggshell produce more floatgoats? "Eggshell, zhoop, egg. Egg, zhoop, floatgoat!"

Will harvesting plants do that or something else? "Something else."

Does she want to meet more people? "...more people?" she says, somewhat nervously. "What does more people want?"

The rest of this conversation is conducted while they pet her.

What would happen if she didn't nap for a while?

Is that where her egg came from, zhooped shell-harvest-bits? Can she make an unlimited number of floatgoats that way?

What will harvesting plants do?

More people don't want anything yet but will probably, if introduced to Petal, want to learn more about her.

Her fur is so soft.

She doesn't know what would happen if she didn't nap for a while, besides "after no nap, no harvest!"

She doesn't know where her egg came from, because "isn't hatched yet then!"

They may need to detour to explain what 'unlimited' means, but once she's got the idea, "Yes! Unlimited floatgoats."

The cycle of plant harvesting is described thusly: "Harvest plant, get plant part. Zhoop plant part, make plant. Make more plant! Make so much plant! Zhoop plant so much! Pretty plant!"

She remains wary of the concept of more people, because "people is Big and Surprise!"

They congratulate her on being so soft.

How does she know how to make floatgoat eggs in general, if she doesn't know where hers came from?

"Egg from eggshell!"

"- you hatched right? Your egg didn't zhoop into you, it broke apart. When you make a new floatgoat egg will it break apart or will you need to make more eggs to zhoop them?"

She thinks about this for a few seconds and then concludes, "Doesn't know!"

"Well, I guess we'll see..." Deshi opens the window, and pushes the screen aside.

Out goes the floatgoat!

She beholds the selection. So many things! Which of them are plants? Are there trees that might make fruit? Flowers that might make petals?

The yard of the dorm has:

- a little garden with various herbs and also saffron crocuses in it, plus a patch of carrots
- an apple tree with ladder rungs nailed to the trunk and a boy up in it getting some apples
- a big shady oak
- jasmine all over the fence
- mostly-clover ground cover

The saffron crocuses are so pretty. After glancing back and forth between them and the apple tree, she floats up to one and bobs up and down and comes away with a delicate purple petal, which she carries back to her little collection on Deshi's floor.

"Now you're tired?" says Suvi.

"Tired!" she confirms. "Nap."

Small soft floatgoat curls up in small soft bed.

"But like actually we should think of someone to tell, and tell them," says Suvi.

"But what if it scares her?" frets Deshi.

"I don't know but I need to go, it's been like, a while," says Suvi, looking at the time. "I guess it's not an emergency, making unlimited floatgoats would at least clearly take a while."

Small soft snores.

When she gets up, she yawns a tiny yawn and then harvests another eggshell and sets it with the rest of them, identical shell-shard triplets.

"Are you going to zhoop them now?" asks Deshi.

"No. Makes more eggshell first. Then zhoop more egg!"

"...how many more eggs?" asks Deshi.

Decisively, "One two three four five egg."

"And five floatgoats?"

For some reason this question seems to stump her.