don't need any shield when you're out in the field

Just the same as with the Earthwormwood: careful application of pressure to the boundaries between people improved the flow of information and trust between them. And then, the crops so carefully planted would begin to grow and yield.

Never mind any of Kite's flailing immediacy, flopped from suspicion to accord, and then back again. One simply couldn't erect those same type of militant barriers when one was attempting to raise life from the earth.

Still, Juniper made it easy. The sort of flexible rigidity they employed in their command was...striking.

Zeon swore he'd have to learn that too, someday.