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HJ shared how the SSRIs have genuinely made him feel lighter, calm, and he finds he's learning new things about himself in an enriching way. But he doesn't want to hurt their relationship and if LaVonte still doesn't want the basil plant, they can throw it out.

LaVonte listens as he speaks, and there's a wordless period of them just seeing each other

When LaVonte goes to his coffin for the night, he sees the tiny basil plant, he smells it, and of its scent is HJ's. Feeling less upset, he recalls the smile on HJ's face as he found the plant at the co-op and scooted them towards Maya to pay for it. He remembers how relaxed his shoulders were from his view behind him on the scooter. They need not breathe but he inhales the scent, remembers in that moment, and exhales.

LaVonte first said Purpee was a dying town, not with hopelessness but an analysis of the situation and with a confidence that life could be brought back. His motivational talks to the coterie as they experienced distress at simply being in Purpee and the boredom which he didn't share. He said it was a great opportunity. The conversations with local business owners: Sweetie Pie, Mike (they got food trucks and $150K Christmas decor), Helena. LaVonte believes in Purpee, a place he also correctly noted that the Camarilla sent them to for living out the rest of their undead life in boredom.

But in this place that has been taken in many ways by the Whittakers, Douglasses, and technocrats in Silicon Valley, he sees spaces for growth to be cultivated and is actively doing that.