-The vine finds our winged girl in the kitchens at her residence near the Arena. She's got with her a whole counter full of ingredients.-

You know, it's come to my attention that a lot of people here in the Gardens don't actually know how to cook. I think I'm going to do my part to help with that! Today, I want to teach everyone how to make a speciality of mine, one of the first dishes I ever learned to prepare. It's pretty easy, too! It's called potato salad!

-INSERT FAIRLY SIMPLE RECIPE HERE. She demonstrates every last step as well, happily singing to herself inbetween steps. Seriously, it's like she's out of a disney movie. If disney princesses wore sailor suits.-

There! All done! Wasn't that easy?

[Zinc is sitting at her kitchen table, looking a bit formal really. She has an announcement to make.]

Vitalia has not come back.

[She looks down at her hands folded on the table, frowning slightly. She is upset to have lost her new friend so quickly.]

Maybe lost, in the wild places, where time is... wrong. Maybe gone, it happens... often.

[She doesn't sigh, she doesn't breathe, but the idea of it is there.]

She has many plants. I will tend mine, but... the rest are outside. Outside my gate.

They should not be left, to die. Maybe... Himemiya and others, could tend them? I do not know if there are others.

[ This place strikes her as being so very, very familiar to her. Yet, she cannot put her digit on it. Perhaps she took a vacation to this world? That would explain the itching familiarity. She has been to many worlds, after all.

A vacation is also something she has not had in a while!

How convenient!

She does not like being whisked away without her consent, but she is less furious about this whole matter than she had been the first time she arrived here--not that she remembers very well. Or at all, for the moment.

Ah--wait! The plant!

She toys with the Vine, which responds by opening its mirror and begins broadcasting the 'video'. She remembers now! At least, she remembers actually being here before for sure. She does not remember where 'here' is.

The video shows her floating in the fortress she built just weeks ago to everyone else--centuries upon centuries for herself. It is most definitely her work as she inspects it. What was it about this world? There had been some sort of gimmick, but all worlds have gimmicks, so that means nothing. ]

How exciting. Hee hee hee! Someone, do please come forth and tell me where I am. I get the distinct feeling I have been here before, but--well, ruling so many worlds makes them all bleed together, you see.

Hurry up! I may have all the time in the universe, but that does not give me infinite patience. Hee hee hee.