// Lura, mid beat. After the player's 4th harvest (CONTEXT D-14).
//
// See lura-arrival.ink for variable contract + tone notes. Lura is the
// warmth anchor: specific, slightly funny, never sentimental. She knows
// something is happening to the world and she is choosing to be useful
// about it instead of mournful.

VAR fragment_count = 0
VAR last_plant_type = ""

== mid ==

Four. That's a real number.

I tried to do this once, you know. The garden, I mean. Not — not at this scale. A balcony. Three pots, one of them already broken when I bought it. The basil died first. The rosemary survived. The rosemary survives most things.

You're keeping at it. Most people don't.

{ last_plant_type == "winter-rose":
    A winter-rose this time. They're harder. You can tell, can't you. They want a particular kind of attention.
- else:
  { last_plant_type == "yarrow":
      Yarrow keeps giving you yarrow. There's a lesson in that and I'm not going to spell it out, that's the kind of thing you ruin by saying.
  - else:
      I'm going to be honest, I lost track of which one it was this time. They look different in the wall.
  }
}

There's something I should be doing. I'll be back when there's more to bring you.

-> END