Time and Dirt
On a distant planet, a gardener named Cal waits alone for someone to wake up. Every day.
(First Day -- Day 2 -- Next Day)
Day 2
Heliopause Colony on Planet Vertumna, Medbay
“Solane, I’m back. Sorry it’s so late today... work in Geoponics can’t slow down, to make sure we all have enough food, and ...
But, but I brought you a flower... it’s a beautiful cosmos with petals as blue as your hair, a small yellow center, colored like your yellow strands, and leaves that share my hair’s dark green ... you can’t see it, but maybe you can smell it. Here, I will hold it right under your nose.
...
That’s... that’s okay, I didn’t expect you to wake up, or even have a reaction anyway... At least it looks so nice on your brown skin. W-why isn’t anyone else here to see it? Has ... has no one else cried at your bed yet?
I-I, I’m sor-sorry, I have to go now. T-to look after our other flowers. You know, the ones that your mother... I mean I’ll be back tomorrow”