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Prompt - Vegetation [noun]: plants considered collectively, especially those found in a particular area or habitat

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The warm humid air felt nice on her skin, as did the heat of the sun’s rays soaking into her. Despite being a different planet, in a different system, almost a galaxy away, this felt almost like home. Perhaps all islands shared certain features. Even the vegetation was similar. Vibrant plants with broad leaves, thick, healthy. Pushing upward from sandy soil, clinging to steep mountain sides. Brilliant flowers, bright as a painting, flourished everywhere. That any place had survived the devastation of the Reapers was a miracle. To be a place that felt so much like home was… beyond definition.

Prompt - Highlife [noun]: an extravagant of luxurious style of living

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Aethyta whistled as she stepped into the… what even was it? A foyer? A vestibule? An antechamber? It was bigger than the lobby at her handler’s office. This could not be the place. The acolyte who let her in disappeared through a wide door, leaving her alone. Aethyta walked around the cool marble floors, dragged her fingers over the decorative tables. Not a speck of dust.

“Someone’s living the highlife,” she muttered to herself. Of course, this was obviously all a prank. No way the pretty matron at the bar was living like this. That shit was for the vids.