And so she climbs on her back and stops talking.

-- her life was weird before. But this is a very different flavour of weird.

Orochimaru has no comment on weirdness flavors as he takes off, the landscape blurring around them again, Tetsuri keeping up rather easily. 

They return to the base. "I'm intending to move you to another room," he writes to Juliet when they arrive. "Do you have any preferences?"

"Somewhere with and/or near the kitchen? And -- a view? If that's even possible with the whole... being underground thing."

"There aren't many good views, but... There's places overlooking the greenhouses that could be renovated rather easily. Although I would recommend against eating anything from them. Or even casual strolls. Some of the plants are a bit... Temperamental."

She smiles under her mask

"I had a greenhouse at home. I'll... try to restrain myself," she laughs.

"I wonder if I could create a plant that would interact interestingly with your Other World..."

"...I could bring one over, tend to it here and then bring it back. See how its affected."

"Oooh, we should try planting seeds as well, I can find something fast-growing... And ideal experiment of course would stretch across multiple generations..."

She nods enthusiastically.

"It might like -- turn into a horror plant from the deepest horrors of the universe. But like. Wouldn't that be exciting?"

(Tetsuri has an expression like she's trying to calculate how much incense will be needed for a horror plant from beyond the void, and is not liking her conclusion. Also. How are shinobi worse than the dumbest initiates. How.)

"We should experiment with different fertilizers, too! And watering solutions, and see if you can actively talk it into being even more horrific..."

"We could grow two and then attempt cross-pollinate them."

"See which strains respond better - are mobile or predatory plants more corruptible, does the level of sensory input matter..."

Akhlys points out a few more things they could try, learnt from her childhood of botany, gardening and binging for a few months in her late-grandmothers office and reading all her old papers and journals.

Orochimaru has really only dabbled in botany, so this is all very useful speculation!

That goes on for a while, then; "I'm tempted to also ask for art supplies, on top of reading material."

"They can be provided quite easily. Musical instruments, too." Bribery is more effective than threats, anyways, and he likes her.

"Thank you! I'm not so big on music. But they would be super appreciated. I mean, I also have my expensive tinker music player. But it's not the same."

"Just ask, if you think of anything else. I can't supply everything, of course, but given your world's ability to copy things, rare or delicate items are much less of a concern."

"Mostly just raw ingredients for cooking and cook books. But otherwise, I'll let you know."

Her evil maniacal captor was so nice. Adorable.

He normally doesn't luck out this much with captives, this is great!

Speaking of captives...

"We might want to shift back, soon. I suspect our monk friend would prefer being in the world proper."

Akhlys blinks, looks over to Tetsuri and holds out her hand.

"You all done with unspeakable horror?"

Amused nod.

She shifts them all back then.

Orochimaru will get rooms set up, then, altering Juliet's new room himself with an earth technique. The greenhouses definitely look like the sort of place you'd find proto-horror plants. Books are brought, along with art supplies and a selection of musical instruments, plus a stack of journals and pens (with a note that says "for observation records"), and then seed packets and a few just-sprouted plants. Foods, too, mostly dried staples but a few spices and rarer items are spared. 

(Tetsuri gets whisked away to discuss purification rituals and then the minutiae of mental protection techniques with him.)