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"Sv-tkt plant-grow. Speak flesh for plant flesh. Absalom phrase, plant well grow speak. Wrikreechee water speak grow strong. Speak plants; home speak; miss not; lonesome not."
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Sv-Tkt is a Wrikreechee, from the planet Akchios. On this watery planet, their language developed to include the vibrations of tone from ones speech, in addition to the words themselves. Upon reaching Absalom Station, Sv-tkt quickly heard the homely wisdom that plants grow better when you speak to them. He connected this to how the Wrikreechee language works, and so took up a job at a garden, tending to the plants.
Talking to the plants reminds him of the emotion of talking to people back at home, helping to relieve homesickness without making him look crazy.