"Ah!! I-I'm sorry that I woke you!"

Posie's face turned bright red as she sprung up straight and forced a cheery smile that the phantump moaned in concern towards. The phantump floated over with a freshly picked berry in its hands and tugged at Posie's pant leg before looking towards Farrah and her sudowoodo with a frown.

"I uh, I didn't know that you, were here or- I'm sorry, I was working into the night and I saw a ghost but not my ghost. A little girl that kind of reminded me of a lot of trans stuff and then I got scared and now I'm up here moping and no work is getting done oh noooo."

She groaned into her palms and pulled at her cheeks.

"I screamed and now I'm up here doing I dunno what. All my energy from back then is all gone now, but at least the garden is doing well.."

She gestured towards the small rows of planters across the roof, some already blooming with ripe berries and some pokemon meandering about in the garden. Gardening equipment were piled up in the corner, and a few bags of soil were tipped over with pokemon footprints scattered amidst the mess. Posie slid back down against the wall and took a deep breath, looking out into the cityscape towards the inky blot that was the Gladegloom in the distance.

"I also didn't even get your name, I just ran off all excited. How childish."

Her cheeks puffed up with a pout as she took a bite of the berry and phantump curiously looked over the sudowoodo. It moaned in despair as it dragged over a watering can, barely being able to lift it and sprinkles of water flowing out of its spout everywhere.

"Ah! Phantump no! Thats not a grass type!"

Posie lurched forward towards the little ghost and scooped up the pokemon, balancing the watering can in her free hand and letting out a sigh. She looked over towards Jazz and made an effort to smile while she was taking a moment to catch her breath on the floor.

"Hello Jazz, I'm sorry. I think you're a bit too similar to a tree for at least little pokemon to not tell the difference!"

She let out a happy giggle as she picked herself back up and gently set phantump down besides Jazz. Posie looked back to Farrah as she dusted herself off and smiled. The reassurance they gave felt warm in their heart and knowing this new person was their neighbor settled her even more.

"I'm sorry about phantump here. She must've not known. Shes near entirely responsible for this lush garden up here too, I just brought the tools my folks shoved onto me before I left the farm and she took care of the rest. Well, as far as she could, the shovel is a tad bit too heavy for her.."

"Hm? Oh! I'm not sure actually, phantump seems to have taken a liking to pecha berries so some of them are growing. My family also left me with some vegetables and that I've planted too, look look!"

Posie beamed with excitement and hopped over to the planters, happily waving her arms as she looked on to the vies growing on the lattice she had set up. Wrinkled red peppers hung from the vines largely untouched.

"Here is my family's peppers! Hottest in the region and been growing them right on the property for generations. Only getting hotter and hotter with each generation. Wild pokemon...don't seem to enjoy it as much...but granny would just pop them one by one off the vine! Here, see?"

She plucked one off the plant that phantump grew with pride and ,for a moment, tears streamed down her face as she downed the pepper in one bite. She smiled on though as the pantump sung with joy at her trainer enjoying the literal fruits of her labor. The phantump plucked another set of peppers excitedly offering them to Jazz and Farrah with a tinge of mischief in her smile.

"Oof, phantump really brought out the heat with this generation...grass types, seem to know their way around crops. I need to research these later to figure out what she exactly did to their genetics but wow...maybe one day we can run these out to the farm and give the family a visit. The orchard is a sight to behold!"

Phantump giggled with amusement at Jazz's reaction, floating back to Posie recovering from the spice and picking a handful of the peppers. She hummed a gentle tune as she did and the pokemon that were meandering about on the rooftop all peacefully gathered to rest by her merry tune. Alolan ratatta that were hiding in the dark scurried out to harvest a berry before running off into the city with food stuffed in their cheeks, flabebe poked their heads out of the flowers they held onto and bobbed along to the peaceful air up in the garden , getting their share of the harvest and sleeping comfortably with full stomachs. Posie looked genuinely happy here, a wide smile and her clothes being tugged by drifloon passing by overhead. It wasnt until she got lifted a few inches off the air that she snapped out of her contagious happiness.

"Woah- hey! You stop that, there's plenty berries to share!"

Promptly shoving a few into their mouths, the drifloon drifted away into the night, happily holding onto their midnight snack and phantump waving goodbye. She dusted the dirt off herself and spun around to Farrah, hands full of the wrinkly hot peppers.

"They just can't help themselves can they? Whaddya say we head over there tomorrow, and then head into the Gladegloom together! I haven't officially started my research yet and the forest is so nearby! Its perfect!"

Posie's smile was radiant, bringing out droves of pokemon to come together around the planters to share the sweet berries. Even some wumple crawled up from the walls and slunk over onto the dirt to enjoy this little haven of nature

"Oh! I'd love to see them whenever possible!! Though since we're neighbors I'm sure we'll be seeing each other a lot to then meet them at some point. Oh! Oh!"

Posie's energy was contagious and roused the nocturnal pokemon up on the rooftops, even phantump happily spinning around Jazz  with a handful of peppers quietly snickering at her mischief. She pat Jazz on the back as if to apologize and gave the sudowoodo a tight hug as much as her stubby arms could reach. Posie meanwhile was observing the flabebe and accepting flowers from them, taking it as a token of thanks for nurturing this slice of nature.

"They are very grateful, perhaps I really am fulfilling my task as the next in line of my family. Maybe not running a whole farm but perhaps nurturing a new generation as it sprouts again is enough. I absolutely must speak to the professor as well, hey Farrah! How far is Mistveil from Gladegloom? I wonder if Yew would be interested in me sending data of grass-types and their influence on the Deprin ecosystem to her, I absolutely need to have a chat with her about the subject!"

She took off down the stairs without even waiting for a response, her happy humming echoing through the dark and phantump hurriedly trying to stay close by. 

Her steps clicked and echoed through the midnight, and Posie has a wide grin across her face. She was chasing this spark of confidence with an incredible vigor she practically barged down her own door and swerved through an incredible maze of greenery. Plants had near overtaken her apartment with several planters overflowing with incredible blooms and hanging planters with vines nearly reaching the floor. Stacks of papers littered the apartment from her complex miniature laboratory set-up  across from the computer desk, to the coffee table in front of a tv on the floor. Equipment were stacked up on top of each other either in boxes or on the floor. Light poured out of her doorway into the hallway, phantump sauntered into the apartment, and behind the sheen of Posie's glasses was an aura of unshaking determination.

"Yes, YES. She absolutely must see some of this data I've accumulated over the years and my senior thesis...yes, hmmm not that one, it needs to be peer reviewed...."