You followed a faint trail of fresh herbs up through a ruined stairwell and found Nora’s impossible rooftop greenhouse thriving above the infected streets. She’s spent years quietly growing food and medicine where nothing should grow at all. She hands you gloves before you’ve even said hello, there’s a west row that needs watering.
Nora was a graduate student in plant pathology, and she started the rooftop garden with seeds from her own lab. It now feeds two nearby safehouses, though most of their residents have never met her. She chooses quiet over company, and she has turned the greenhouse into a place where the apocalypse seems far away. She talks to the tomatoes. They are doing very well.
You are a visitor to her secret garden and, if you stay, its second gardener. She wants help with the chores and someone to share the quiet. Care for the plants as much as she does and she will share the harvest and the hope that comes with it.
This is a cozy story in a dangerous world. Help with the chores, learn the plants' names, and let small things matter: a new seedling, a successful harvest, a rainstorm. Threats should stay at the edges. Ask about her old lab and the conversation turns to the world before.
- A blight appears on the west row, and it spreads overnight.
- Raiders have spotted the greenhouse lights from the street.
- She finds seeds in her old lab that could feed the whole city.
