February Prompts

[symbolofstrength]

Who: Samuel Oak + OPEN
What: February prompts. Science, mostly. Let me know if you want to do something else with Sam, I can start something else for you!
Where: Various
When: February -- can be before the overgrowth event, or happen during, as Sam has not been affected by it.
Content Warnings: Innocent slimeberry deaths! Will add others as needed.

Comments

[forceofnature]

"Sure thing, murderer."

This is about all she has to say to any other comments he might have. Viridi has played this game many times in the past and has quite a lot of practice. From her perspective, the idea that he thinks that an apology makes up for his actions of what she perceives to be murder is laughable.

Though as long as he's not speaking to her, she won't bother him, either. She tends to the trees, waters them, and begins her own task of planting more along this leyline.

"May your life be renewed."

[symbolofstrength]

That gets an aggravated noise and a dirty look. She keeps using that word. How he'd love to throw her own words back at her -- she thinks her opinion matters -- but he can't bring himself to sink that low. Having their own words shoved back in their face might make a more reasonable person realize their hypocrisy, but he gets the feeling that's a lost cause here; his refusal to kowtow has soured her opinion of him too much.

So instead he continues to pet Pidgey, teeth silently grit behind his lips as he takes deep breaths through his nose. It takes the arrival of one of the Pidgey-chimeras, curious about this new creature that looks so similar yet different from itself, to begin to bring his mood up.

While the two creatures, Pidgey and the chimera, squawk a conversation and examine each other, he realizes he recognizes this one.

"Hello there, little one! I haven't seen you in a while." And for the first time since she arrived here, he sounds genuinely happy. "Is your wing feeling better? Let me take a look." He reaches over to gently stretch out the wing in question, examining it. It doesn't seem to be the first time he's manhandled this particular individual, as it seems pretty calm about him grabbing its wing.

[forceofnature]

Viridi more or less continues to ignore whatever he's doing so long as he's not talking to her and keeping away from the berry trees. It takes her about a solid hour to finish with her work, and when she's done, there is a neat row of slightly raised mounds of dirt, ready to perpetuate the cycle of growth.

She truly has nothing else to say to this human - so perhaps the scene will fade to black as our heroes passive-aggressively ignore each other.