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

[code_jaeger]

"Okay..."

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Thank you. It would be...a disservice to not help since you were both kind enough to speak with me.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"I don't kow about that." He noted softly.

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

You two are the first voices I have heard in a very long time, even if only mental. The world I saw when touching you is...a very different one. I have been here a long time. WELL WORTH AID.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"Alright alright."

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

My apologies, I didn't mean for that last to be audible, she sighed softly. I am out of practice in conversation.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"its fine." He shook his head.

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Actually it's rude but I'm good at recognizing and correcting that in myself at least, she chuckled.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"I dont't think its that bad."

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Ah, have social standards shifted in these years then?

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"There aren't many anymore honestly."

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

...oh? she blinked, turning to lean against the rail around the pool and look at him for a long moment. Why?

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"There really just pockets of humanity left."

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Did they leave the planet or did they die? she asked soberly.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"Died." He sighed.

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Lebanon Extinction Agenda, Sudanese Bioleak, or Russia?

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"None of those....?"

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Then how?

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"Slimes mutated and started spreading diseases."

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

...Lebanese, she chuckled. That was their extinction agenda to remove the affront our species had become.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"Yeah well..." HE shrugged.

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

Means one of my agents failed after I disappeared. I'm sorry.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"This isn't your fault..." He shook his head.

Re: Flower Power

[petal_storm]

I emerged as a free agent in the world and I was working to prevent mass extinction. I was one of very few who likely could have managed such so yes, it is my fault to a degree. I never wanted the species dead, monster though I am.

Re: Flower Power

[code_jaeger]

"Yeah well one person cannot do everything."