First Leaf - Fear Not This Night

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Who: Asteffiel
Broadcast: Yep | Video
Action: Marsiva
When: March 4th/5th?


Little Asuran Box, why am I cold?

[ At least, that's what Asteffiel assumes this thing he's holding is. Hope no one watching gets motion sick, because Asteffiel keeps turning it over and over, trying to figure it out. Enjoy plant-hands, the long leaves of his bottoms, the very obviously grown out of his feet leaves of his shoes. ]

It is still winter, yes, but I haven't been cold while dressed before. [ He finally rights the communicator, studying it a little close now.

Yeah he's made of plants molding itself into a human shape. ]

… Except when I walked into the pond. That was cold. But I am not wet now, so it is not that.

[ Silence as he thinks more on why he could be cold while clothed and not soaked. ]

Where is Crocus? This is not his house.

[ Finally something vaguely important to ask – although he still seems distracted. ]

Comments

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[ And very good at hiding out of view when the other one wants to talk-

What does "beat" have to do with anything, there isn't anything to hit-

Ooooh that's kinda cool. But it ended with a question. Hmmmn. Okay he sits here thinking for a bit. ]

I am a Sylvari [ ... that was five, right? Maybe. He's going to try this thing. ]
We look like trees because Mother
Is the Pale Tree

[ ... He totally got that, right? ]

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Well, none of that was right at-

No wait, I was kidding, are you actually related to a tree?

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Oh. [ Well, he wasn't exactly sure what beats where anyway. ]

Yes? Mother is a big tree! [ He waves his arms in a vague tree shape - trunk, out for massive branches - but he didn't put the communicator down so have fun with all that motion. ]

The... grott... no, Grove, the Grove is under her, and on some of the lower branches, and she looks like one of us to talk to us better. [ He pauses again. ]

... When she isn't sleeping. She got hurt.

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[Sokka's processing this, give him a second. ]

Ohhhhhh, so you're like...a tree spirit?

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[ He has to process "spirit". He never went to Ascalon, but plenty of Priory, Vigil, or Whispers Sylvari have... ]

How is spirit different from ghost? I know ghosts, and I am not one of those.

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Oh no, they're not ghosts. They're...uh spirits. They help keep the world in balance. They're connected to nature, and junk.

[Nature and junk, so eloquent. ]

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... Balance? [ He has to think on that. ]

Maybe! The Firstborn think we started waking up because the.... Elder Dragons? ... Yes, because the Elder Dragons were all waking up and making messes, and that we're supposed to fight them.

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You don't know anyone called the Fire Nation, by any chance?

[Because that's creepily familiar.]

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[ Asteffiel has to think for another good minute or two. ]

There's a Flame Legion?

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Maaaybe? Can they bend fire?

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.... I thought fire wasn't a thing you could really touch. How can you bend it, if you can't grab it?

[ ... So clearly he doesn't know this "fire nation" right? ]

I think some of them use fire, and they're called Shamans when they can? But I haven't met any, the Grove is far away from where they are.

[ Which doesn't explain why he knows that much about them, at all, huh? ]

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...Definitely not from the same place.

We have people called Fire Benders where I'm from. They can create and manipulate fire. We got Earth and Water Benders, too.

...And one Air Bender.

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... Sounds like it.

[ He frowns a little. ]

... Benders sound like... Elementalists who pick one element.

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Maybe? I mean, there;s the Avatar, they can master all the elements, but there's only ever one of them around at any one time.

It's a reincarnation thing.

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... Re... incarnation...

[ He has to think on that. ]

... is that like remembering what others have done? Like... Like knowing snow is cold, without ever touching snow?

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Uh...sort of? It's more like...being born again, but as a different person.

I'm not sure how it works, I'm the science guy.

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.... That's weird. Probably good that there's only one. It could get confusing very quickly.

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It's super weird. Anyway,the current Avatar is one of my best friends. So we have a lot of...weird Avatar-related adventures while he tries to master all the elements. He's a good guy.

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Good friends are good. Even better when weird things go on, because the good friends can keep bad friends from happening.

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[That gets...a little laugh. ]

Or turn the bad friends good.

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... Maybe. Some bad friends are very.... bad. Or the bad friends have a lot of other bad friends who keep them bad.

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Yeah, I knew someone who was...kinda that last one? It's long and complicated and concerns a lot of honour and stuff. But he's a good guy now, really. He's a true friend.

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"Honour" sounds a little less like a very bad friend, and more of a confused bad friend. With bad friends making the confusion worse.

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Aaaand that's exactly what happened.

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... Oooohhh.