Title: The Constant Gardener
Fandom: The 100
Author: Redrikki
Character: Marcus Kane
Rating: PG
Challenge: Borrowed Title
Length: 100 words
Summary: Marcus visits the Last Tree.

Nearly a year after he planted it, Marcus returned to the Last Tree. As a boy he had been its Tender, feeding it his people’s hopes and dreams along with their water rations. He had thought that on earth, free from its confining pot and the threat of pruning sheers, it could flourish and grow for the first time in a hundred years, but he had planted it in the wrong place. The older, looming trees had blocked out the sunlight and now its leaves were withered and brown. Marcus bowed his head and wept over this latest senseless death.