Things are getting weird again.
Now — the forest itself is weird. You've seen enough of Helovia to know most trees are turning the color of flame and abandoning their leaves, but the ones here cling stubbornly to their green needles. You wonder why as you explore the shadows under them, but it isn't a pressing question. Anyway, soon enough you have a lot of others.
A lot.
You happen upon a clearing not so different from other clearings, except there's someone in it already, and your ears come up half in curiosity and half in wariness. He's.... well, beautiful is one way to put it, right? It's the first word to mind, at least, and it echoes in your head like it's an antonym to you. You stand at a breach in the trees, covered still in shadow and wearing midnight across your skin, and he's lit up like heaven itself just noticed him, standing there, and decided to point him out to every creature with eyes in the near vicinity.
Your immediate instinct is suspicion — of course it is. Slowly, you encroach on his light and his clearing (his by default considering he's the only one here). And it's only after you've crept up a bit, offering no greeting save to stare at his wings — and his horns — you notice the tree. It's.... significantly less inspiring, isn't it? It isn't the thing making your heart beat faster. You cock your head toward it anyway, because it's easier to look an ugly old pine in the face than it is to look at someone so young and ethereal. Stimulation runs a little too hot through your veins and though you want to speak, you can't quite untangle the words.
So you're quiet, so far. Quiet as you approach unannounced, your wings furling and flexing at your sides in a manner remarkably similar to the way a person might wring his hands. A part of you wants to run — you snuff it. You're too old now, too clever and brave, to be such a child about this. Why don't you say something? Why don't you do something, Virga?
Maybe you're just not ready yet.
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[DROP] it's harvest time!! [Common SS]
