recording.
[ahem.] hello !
...
[ rose nudges lyvia .]
right , right , uhh
so , Skel here has discovered some new clade of flower !
or at least he's found one individual of it
uhh, we've been given a petal sample , but it's kind of " dead " now ?
it seems like a carnation flower petal.
[ rose goes offscreen to the right .]
you're lucky i brought my scientific instruments when i was moving in.
[ noises made by friction onto cardboard ]
you fixed the camera-video-input thing , right ?
[Lyvia faces the offscreen Rose.]
mhm. we're on .mp4 now, but i'm going to have to convert it to a .ttxt file,
[Lyvia faces the camera towards Rose.]
[H.Skel can be partly seen on the upper-right corner of the recording.]
[ noises made by a metallic or plastic casing gently placed onto the floor ]
since our camera is unable to upload .mp4's online.
i've tried, really.
i see .
and that is ?
[Zoom in to Rose and her instruments]
compound microscope, et al.
i have...somehow already prepared it?
...that's nothing, hopefully.
here's the petal .
[Zoom out]
[Lyvia holds out the petal to Rose.]
[ rose takes the petal .]
[ rose prepares the petal on a microscope slide .]
[ rose faces to the offscreen right .]
ah, hello Skel. i hadn't noticed you until now.
[Skel's voice is heard from offscreen just a beat later.]
..greetings - and.. my apologies.
i understand i don't exactly make my presence..
known.
that's alright.
didn't i say he was here ?
[ rose prepares the slide under the stage clip .]
then i didn't catch that.
[ rose opens the illuminator .]
soooo ...
hm?
how was your waaallk ?
it was great, actually.
[ rose looks into the eyepiece .]
i viewed a movie, "Project Hail Mary". it was very pleasant.
and you didn't tell me you were going to ?
[ rose faces lyvia .]
it was a local screening, and all the seats were already paid for by some guy.
that room was full of people.
[ rose looks into the eyepiece oncemore .]
[ rose switches the microscope's objective lens .]
what on earth?
what is it ?
[Lyvia comes over with the camera, both facing Rose.]
its cells remind me of a carnation's but...
yeah ...
[ rose looks up at lyvia .]
carnations don't usually have seeds on their petals and curl up when touched, do they?
nope ...
[ rose looks into the eyepiece twicemore , observing for a while .]
[scribbling is heard somewhere offscreen.. it sounded rather intense.]
amaze.
you gonna name it ?
yes, actually. "Dianthus oculipetalum", or "the Eyelid Pink".
... which means ?
Dianthus is the genus for carnations. "oculipetalum" is a compound of Latin oculus and petalum, meaning "eye" and "petal" respectively.
"eye" because the seeds look like one.
how do you know it's specifically a carnation flower ?
cell structure.
[ rose unclips the slide .]
right ,
and this is why i love you !
come again?
platonically .
you know i'm aroace .
right, right, ahem.
i forgot that solid samples larger than the microscope slide don't need to be clipped with one.
that's okay ! we've identified it now , at least .
you can stop the recording now, by the way.
right !