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Bittersweet Symphony didn't ever leave his home in Lost Town. He'd come to the town long ago, practically felt the need of the flora there, begging to be helped back to the glory it faced beyond the fire that had charged its edges. Local ponies told him to leave it be - that there were ghosts lingering there, but in all his years of residing in Lost Town, he'd never seen one ghost before. He didn't come across many living ponies either. Perhaps the locals had meant to tell him that it was a ghost town, rather than there were ghost in the town. He couldn't be sure of their meaning. He never left the town once he'd settled there. His dark fur blended well into the shadows and charred buildings and dark soil. When he first arrived, there had been barely any greenery there at all, but in his cozy hovel behind the ruins of a opera building, his own little garden had sprung. Greenery shot out of the ground and Sweet was so pleased to see it. That meant that the land was finally regrowing, was finally feeling safe and well enough to grow again. To the suli, who loved little more than seeing plants flourish, it meant everything to him.
Of course he stayed to tend to all the plants he could there. He would walk through the main roads, visiting the remains of garden boxes from far before his time, testing the soil to see if there was anything growing underneath it. He didn't wish to bring in new seedlings, rather he wanted to hunt for any manner of plant remains that he could help regrow anew. It was hard, tiring work, walking through an entire town with so much precision, speaking to every old seed buried in the stiff ground, but Bittersweet intended to do what he could and if he had to spend the next ten years walking up and down empty streets before he saw any greenery in the garden boxes, he would. Sometimes he wondered if it might be more useful to have other sulis here to help him, but he'd certainly never seen anypony who cared to stay here long term. Ponies only really came to Lost Town to hunt for ghosts. Maybe that's what he was turning into too. Yet another part of the dismal scenery. @Shadrya