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The Gardener of Slow Light
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Mira pressed her thumb to the scanner. The file unlocked, and a map appeared — a path through the station ending at the greenhouse, with a single marked spot under the floor. Cass beeped softly. "Your grandmother buried something there," it said. "And the plants have been guarding it, pointing the way, ever since she left."
Mira followed the map to the greenhouse and dug under the floor where it was marked. Her fingers found a small glass jar, sealed tight, full of soil that glowed with slow light. A label in her grandmother's hand read: "The first seed of the next garden. Yours now." Mira held it to her chest and finally understood — the garden had been waiting all this time for her.
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