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]

::....YOU'RE FROZEN IN ICE NOW TOO?!:: OH GODS OH GODS OH GODS.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

::I meant you.:: He sighed. Sorry. He was frozen in other ways sure... but not physically.

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

::Oh. OH GOOD. I thought reaching out to you had spread the curse somehow...:: Oh gods terror? Yes. ::I've been wanting too for a while.:: Ask him. He hadn't wanted to trap the man though, them both being poly, and he knew Corvus took other lovers when he was away, even as Markux suggested people for them both when they were together...

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

::Wanting...:: He sighed. ::I dont' even remember what that feels like.::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Oh...gods.

Why...had he reached out when he just...caused things like this??

The sudden, horrified rush of self recrimination was...heady, and potent and...suddenly cut off yes.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

Gods... maybe his brain had just... made the whole damn thing up...

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Sorry, he was flooding himself enough to distract me. I put him to sleep, The woman's voice was dry and sad for a moment. All emotion magic that one, without a body anchor that's breathing right now he could have actually killed himself...

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

Corvus really didn't have any words honestly... gods...

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

...want to talk about it? I'm in no way anyone's ideal of a sympathetic ear, but you seem...troubled. And I can hear you. He and Markux were the first she'd heard in a long time, that was reason enough to try to help...right?

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

::I may not ever feel again.::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Why? You're not a sociopath...

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

::Only so much alone someone like me can take before things just break.::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Define alone? she asked softly. I see ties, so it's hard for me to grasp you're alone?

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

::Ties to what?:: he laughed bitterly. ::The only people I've had ties to are gone or frozen. I thought he was dead!::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Would you like to see? she offered, giving the impression of tilting her head much like a bird.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

::If you want.::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Are you in a safe place where you can ignore your body for a bit?

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

::I don't know.:: He sighed.

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Cast a shield then.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

::I will wake up if I do.::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

That doesn't matter, I'll be with you regardless.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

::How?::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

I am not dream walking.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

::What are you doing then?::

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Projecting along the link he forged dream walking.