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She greets you at the front gates, probably lounging on a plinth, ersatz indigo-robed ็ณ็ฎ. If this is your first time visiting, she offers to restore your HP and MP for free. If this is not your first time visiting, she will restore your HP and MP without forewarning when you least expect it.
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Cobbled paths to vibrant market squares, dirt paths to rough patches of transitory land, agriculture suffused with wilding, there are pleasantly curated lawn strolls of flowers and trees, there are unblazed trails of dark forest and brambles. Beachfront, mountainside, desert and wood, past, future, worlds here and askew to visit. Most of us just like to lay around in the sun, though.
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At the mountain hot spring, she welcomes you with a matronly smile and a towel. At the beach, swimwear-clad lifeguard and grillmaster. The office secretary, the plant-mushing swamp druid queen, the friendly barista: point is, Amaryllis has an uncanny ability to be 'staffing' multiple 'attractions' in her resort dimension. (No, nobody has seen two of her in the same place at once, or at least that they'll admit to in public.)
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It's easy for anyone to get some privacy, all they have to do is wander with the intention of getting lost, and they'll be protected from being found. Finding your way back, unchanged, in one piece, that's not her problem.
Refuge, rest, watch a thousand flowers bloom, stay, move on, move through. A garden is a collection of growth, the intersection and interplay between cultivation and wildness, the rumination and consideration and evolution of things, rhizomatic growth over hierarchical consumption. It's also just an excuse to daydream about weird furries in idealized nature. I feel better for carrying this Garden with me in my heart where I go, I know a tiny cohort of friends-acquaintances-comrades who feel the same. The garden is the relationships, the garden is the mindset, the garden can literally be a garden (some visual inspiration include the Kubota Garden in Seattle that I like to visit often, and the Baegyangsa Temple in southwestern Korea that I've never been in the same hemisphere as). other works of inspiration cited: the suikoden series, โthe mushroom at the end of the worldโ,
I wanted to write something down on this before 'Co Host ends', and, yet, it's forever a document in progress in my neuron-drafts, a dao-that-can-be-named-is-not-the-eternal-dao piece that i never feel satisfied with elaborating on, so I cut myself off after a few silly anecdotes. The secret of 'Amaryllis Garden' is that it's just an invitation to play, so are many of the most important things in the universe. This post is over!