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  1. [21:49] Leni asks, "What's up, Ro-lo?"
  2. [21:50] Ro asks, "Can we sit?"
  3. [21:50] Leni stands there, smiling absentmindedly. She nods.
  4. (Leni)
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  6.  
  7. [21:50] Leni asks, "Sure, yeah. Can Mish come too?"
  8. [21:50] Misha eeks, backing off a few steps with a sudden frown.
  9. (Misha)
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  11.  
  12. [21:50] Leni feels her rat sense tingle.
  13. (Leni)
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  15.  
  16. [21:51] Misha says, ".."
  17. [21:51] Ro says, "Yeah."
  18. [21:51] Leni says, "She's, like, my best friend and stuff."
  19. [21:51] Leni says, "Okay, cool."
  20. [21:51] Misha says, "I's jus'.. Won.- Mhm, thank'ya."
  21. [21:52] Leni asks, "What'd you win?"
  22. [21:52] Misha says, "N-No'h.. Noffin', wondered s'all."
  23. [21:53] Ro says, "... I just miss my wife."
  24. [21:54] Leni asks, "Did she go somewhere?"
  25. [21:55] Misha sad bleps her head down, hands resting just between her legs.
  26. (Misha)
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  28.  
  29. [21:55] Ro says, "..."
  30. [21:55] Ro says, "Leni..."
  31. [21:56] Ro says, "Instead of saying, I'll show."
  32. [21:56] Misha says, "I.."
  33. [21:56] Ro says, "Come."
  34. [21:56] Leni says, "I mean. You can say it too, but alright."
  35. [22:01] They arrived, and when they did, they went to the tree. Yet, in front of the tree, there was Kalina…
  36.  
  37. Encased in purple, resting perfectly and wonderfully on a bed of her favorite flowers of roses, violets, poppylus and others that stopped their growth, but ceased their death within the stasis of the crystal.
  38.  
  39. Her body, albeit has been months since then, didn't have a single winkle or ruination on her.
  40.  
  41. She was beautiful.
  42. She was at peace.
  43.  
  44. She was home.
  45.  
  46. "I miss her so much."
  47. (Ro)
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  49.  
  50. [22:03] Leni steps up once they're led to Kalina's resting place. She'd already had the slightest inkling. People acted a certain way around her when they wanted to reveal what they deemed to be uncomfortable truths; the vagabond's realized this much by now in her life.
  51.  
  52. She examines the crystal coffin, cants her head, and brushes her fingers against its surface. Kalina had been a druid as a title given to her by Myllenoris. Leni is called a druid because...
  53.  
  54. Well. No one knows what else to call her.
  55.  
  56. "Why's she like this?" she finally asks.
  57.  
  58. "It's weird."
  59. (Leni)
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  61.  
  62. [22:06] The rodent had already been through this and was rather hesitant to even join the pair on this little journey.. Though she wasn't going to just let them head on out alone, it wouldn't be right, not for Leni.
  63.  
  64. Mish, herself, just stood by with her head hanging low. No longer did those two big teeth show as the frown on her face was too much. The only real urge she was resisting right now was to not hug anyone of the pair, but that's all.
  65. (Misha)
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  67.  
  68. [22:09] "Because," he said slowly. "She's dead, Leni. She died to her injuries in repairing the Vale to it's former glory..."
  69. (Ro)
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  71.  
  72. [22:13] "No, no. No. I know what dying is, Ro."
  73.  
  74. Leni actually sounds just a little bit offended. Not only by Ro's inferring that she didn't know that the druid was clearly dead, but also by the state of her.
  75.  
  76. "If that's what she died for, then she died good, right? Lots of people don't get that. I bet she had a big, happy life too with you. Didn't she?"
  77.  
  78. The woman looks over her shoulder, head still canted. She's not frowning, nor does she look outwardly sad.
  79.  
  80. "Why'd you put her in a box like this? This isn't how it's supposed to be."
  81.  
  82. The Teraphim sees something beautiful, an echo of a memory of his loved one. Leni sees something strangely wrong.
  83.  
  84. "People live, they die. And if then they die. IF other people don't mess it up, they get good deaths. Then they feed the worms. That's how it goes, Ro-lo."
  85. (Leni)
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  87.  
  88. [22:15] Mish found.. Peace, in that thought. It was nice to think that death could mean something more than just ceasing to exist. Because that's how the rodent saw it, you get one chance and then you're out.
  89.  
  90. She's a bit between worlds now though, maybe something could be learned from Leni.
  91.  
  92. Her head seemed to make a small lift up and toward Ro, curiosity striking over.
  93. (Misha)
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  95.  
  96. [22:18] As true as Leni was speaking, Ro wasn't going to accept it just yet. It wasn't right in his eyes, and something in him was saying not to do it just yet.
  97.  
  98. "The truth is Leni? I'm selfish."
  99.  
  100. He admitted it right then and there with no questions.
  101.  
  102. "I am not ready to make peace with the fact that she is gone. I am not ready for her to say goodbye."
  103.  
  104. "I know, as a druid, it makes the most sense."
  105.  
  106. "But I am not ready..."
  107. (Ro)
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  109.  
  110. [22:24] "It does. And you're like...A Teraphim. Right?"
  111.  
  112. It's an entirely rhetorical question, unless Teraphim can just stop being Teraphim. Leni's seen some strange things, heard tales of even stranger. Life is full of beautiful mysteries, not even half of which she's seen.
  113.  
  114. "You're supposed to help the balance too. Isn't that what Aschea's about? Some things die, Ro-lo. Other things grow and feed on those things. Not always in the way we want neither."
  115.  
  116. The patch of grass under the prison of crystal shifts and expands. Little vines, with just a tinge of powdery blue, start to grow from beneath it.
  117.  
  118. The druid puts a hand on either side of his face and gives it a gentle smooshing.
  119.  
  120. "I'm gonna do it."
  121.  
  122. She doesn't ask permission, she doesn't require confirmation. This is simply something that's going to be done. Hel, she doesn't even say what 'it' is. In true Leni fashion.
  123. (Leni)
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  125.  
  126. [22:27] The rodent keeps standing by all third wheel like.. It's lost on her, the lot of it. Religion.. Nature.. The starts.. Whatever, she was far too simple to see meaning in a lot of this.
  127.  
  128. But she did know one thing, her friend was dead and her other one was sad.
  129.  
  130. So with that silly little thought, she joined in this small embrace just out of the blue, giving Ro, yet another, side on hug with Leni in the front. The ultimate hug ritual only performed once every few years.
  131.  
  132. A double huggin'.
  133. (Misha)
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  135.  
  136. [22:29] Perhaps... it is fair.
  137.  
  138. Perhaps it is important to give it all up right then and there.
  139.  
  140. The worms need to feast, and the flowers need to grow, and there is no better monument to the woman than just that. Kalina was dead, and to have a body that was forever eclipsed in the crystal wasn't the way of a druid or Teraphim.
  141.  
  142. It had to be done, yet Ro didn't want to let go--
  143.  
  144. Then the smooshing on his face came-
  145.  
  146. Then the hug came as well.
  147.  
  148. He wasn't alone. He was never alone. He didn't have to be alone at all, and everything was going to be okay right then and there.
  149.  
  150. "I understand."
  151. (Ro)
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  153.  
  154. [22:37] Leni's not super clear on the religion part, but as a nature magi she does know how that's supposed to work. She's talked with the flowers, the trees, the grasses, felt all the movement of life beneath her feet.
  155.  
  156. The whims of men are unimportant, impermanent things. When they try to reign it in and tame it it never ends well.
  157.  
  158. In many respects it might have been a dour and solemn occasion. But Leni beams and joins Ro and Misha both in the wide embrace.
  159.  
  160. Evidently she was going to do this regardless, but Ro's acceptance makes it go that much smoother. Why fight it, the reality of all-consuming nature? No point.
  161.  
  162. With a will of mana to feed the vines they grow rapidly, green tinged with flecks of sparkling blue. The come up, rise over the crystal coffin, and give it a 'hug' of their own. The tomb is dragged down below.
  163.  
  164. Her body begins to nourish the soil, to feed the untamed growth of the Vale. As it should be.
  165. (Leni)
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