This is my world

[petal_storm]

Who: Orchid?
When: Some time in the miasma world.
What: A hybrid and her home!

She paced slowly along the edge of the marshland, feet bare as she slogged, testing the waters. Still clean here, the filters were working and the safflowers were coming along, small, white petals bobbing slowly in the fetid breeze. That was good news, safflower and mallowroot would make the utterly detestable cough syrups that were boiled up in fall so much easier for people to swallow. Her Master still didn't know about the village down the thorn path, he was not...social. He liked his games and things on his terms, but growing things for other people in his carefully filtered garden?

Tsk, never.

Honestly he didn't even realize that the miasma didn't effect her. The damp was good for her, and she was plant enough to thrive instead of die. The mild intoxicating effect of her skin would probably shift from drug to poison if she lived in the miasma but...

...visiting she could do. He grew bored and slept more often these days, one seemingly immortal monster waiting for the world to get interesting again. She could steal away and help.

She liked being able to do something. Like the little stream that ran along the thorn path, she'd diverted it from their home garden so the water was clean and fresh for those further down the way. Clean water was nothing to sneer at here. Nor clean, un-mutated plants even if she could only bring them by the handful sometimes...

Her creator had told her, before he left to try to forge another creature that could live in this new world, that she was special. She needed to help...she believed that yes. This was her world, she had to help others survive in it.

That was why today after checking her plants she drew her cloak tight, belting it with a cord and knife sheath before choosing a new path. She check the wild lands...often.

Just in case.

Last time she'd found a flower that was now growing in the far edge of her garden, all knife edges petals and spots, she'd adored it, even if it was not an old world pure strain. New things were beautiful too. Who knew what she'd find today?

Comments

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"And then what?" he mused. "So what do they do with themselves after that?"

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"Grow and thrive...?"

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"How do they define thriving?" he countered easily. "Are they fruit type plants? Flowering only? Do they have ay other purpose to turn to?"

* * *

::...Corvus? You fell asleep love...:: he didn't get to reach out often but...

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"I have a flawed plan... I get it." He sighed.

---

::Markux?:: Corvus whispered. He didn't sleep often honestly... He was... never meant to be alone...

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"No, we just need to lay out a growth plan and maaaaybe job force training," he laughed.

"Also immunity for the slimes I've been working up," Orchid sighed, nibbling Jaeger's neck.

* * *

::I'm...pulling on the woman here, she's...she's a battery as it were, power wise. I thought I was dead for a bit...:: he admitted softly.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"Something like that I guess." He nodded.

---

::You're not.:: He shook his head.

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"Besides, hard to plan ahead when you're working alone as it were," Victor admitted.

* * *

::No. Could be if I wasn't frozen, I'm infected love.::

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

Jaeger shrugged lightly. "I guess."

---

::I know. I can tell.::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"So, aside from a war on slime what do you hope to achieve?" he asked easily.

* * *

::You've been here?!:: Yes, the sudden alarm? Utterly terrified for him now!

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"If I knew that we woudlnt' really be having this conversation would we?"

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"Yes we would," he chuckled. "Because your nominal allies would have to know in order to work alongside and around your own goals."

* * *

::Love...?::

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"I don't have any? I hardly interact with people...."

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"Now you have Orchid at the least, and I need to know these things too," he laughed.

::...be careful. If you're waking up...:: Just yeah. He'd...it had been too long? Or not long enough, he didn't know how time played out now that he was frozen.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"She's my mate." He noted.

::I didn't touch anything... But yes... I went.::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"Yes, and I'm the one coordinating anyone who might actually wander into your work areas," he chuckled.

* * *

::...my fallen city...:: he sobbed softly. ::And you saw her? Someone copied her for our Jendiss so long ago...::

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"Okay..."

---

::Yes...:: He nodded. ::I can't find Jendiss. I am looking...::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"So what's your vision of the world?" he invited simply.

* * *

::I'm...not going anywhere?:: he joked dryly. ::Just...be careful. Take care of yourself. I can't bear the idea of you hurt trying to find him...::

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"Look, I'm sure you don't mean to seem overbearing but the personal questions from a complete stranger is really starting to aggravate me."

---

::A little late for that. I am alone.::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

He blinked mildly, amused, "that's actually a business question not a personal question," he laughed. "You really do avoid human contact it seems."

* * *

::I"m here...as long as you can close your eyes I can be here.::

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"And I'm not sure what made you think I wanted to do business with you... You just ... kind of assumed that."

---

::It is hard.::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"Well, to prevent the need to tear out plants impacting the environment you probably want to talk to those who'd be stuck in the position of deciding that," he chuckled. "You're part of the larger world now, especially since you seem to be planting further than just the valley we had trouble with."

* * *

::I know love. I'm so sorry.:: So...very sorry. This wasn't suppose to happen.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"I'll stop doing it." So please go away?

---

::Its not your fault.:: He sighed.

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"Doubt that," he admitted. "But we can talk again later when you're not distracted by the new bond."

* * *

::It is. I went hunting without you,:: he sighed. ::And I have no idea who this woman is. I can' quite reach her yet, lot of high range spell work in here...::

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"Are you calling me a liar?" He frowned. "I don't think I WANT to talk to you again if you're going to make those kinds of character judgements without even knowing me..."

---

::I don't know either.::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

"Intelligent people don't stop working just to avoid people," he chuckled. "You have thoughts and ideas, you will do more work, likely in plants, which means space. It's not calling you a liar, it's pointing out the fact Orchid wouldn't fall for someone so easy to dissuade from intelligent work."

* * *

::...what if...we hurt Jendiss more by having found her?:: he asked softly.