[Everybody sure is in Gaze, huh; everybody throwing parties, anyway, although most of Palamedes' people live within walking distance of this very field, so— what is it about the neighborhood that watches the residents, who can say.]

Viktor insisted, not that he had to push very hard; a friend of his is a friend of mine, et cetera. ["insisted" of course meaning "asked once and Palamedes immediately said yes definitely," details,] I'd have thought Cellar Door would have more parties.

[Given all the bars and so on, but maybe Gaze has all the parties so everyone who lives out here can pretend it's normal. High possibility.]

Anyway, the flowers— you know, I don't actually know. Seeing them in Lumenwood day after day just makes me think they should get a chance to grow somewhere with less blood mist. None of the other blood ministers care about gardening, and I know nothing about keeping a plant alive...

[He shrugs! Plants! What are they.] There have to be hundreds of them everywhere you look out there, though; does that suggest they're easy to grow?