Crystal

[sprent]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Gela Baynrac
RECIPIENT: Absolutely everybody.
NOTES: Now for something completely different

(Just to switch things over and away from all these (albeit, important) thoughts of death—)

What is something lovely that has happened to you lately?

Or at least something very interesting?

Comments

[sprent]

(Gela casts the waiting guards a look and smiles at them automatically, raising a hand in greeting. She's still smiling when she looks back at Tav, and then into his camping pack, craning her head. It quickly becomes necessary to kneel and sit back on her heels while she pulls her hair behind her head, tying it off with a strip of leather cord.)

I didn't know you could use magic to grow plants, (she admits,) that is — helpful. Should I plant them, and you can do that?

(The duck can do whatever she wants.)

[tadpoled]

[The guards offer a wave in return before returning to their muffled conversation. Tav nods and turns back to Gela.]

It's common enough where I come from. There are entire circles dedicated to restoring nature.

[And at her suggestion,] That sounds perfect. Let's do that.

[He completely opens up his satchel, the ties falling to the ground to reveal a myriad of pods, seeds, sprigs, and the like.]

[sprent]

Really?

(This is a surprise, albeit a nice one. She finds herself relaxing, spacing that second hole away from the first, so that the two plants do not fight each other for space in the soil.) Are you from a circle like that?

[tadpoled]

I can't remember, unfortunately. However I do get along with other circles I've met.

[Tav watches Gela work with a soft smile.] Wonderful spacing.

[sprent]

Thank you!

(This conversation is going so well Gela decides she will be brave and talk about magic after all. It seems okay.) You are a rifter, aren't you? Are you getting along with the mages here?

[tadpoled]

I am, yes.

[Tav spreads his hands over the seeds that have been planted and with a quiet murmur and a glow under his hand, the seeds sprout into sprigs.]

I work for Strange, primarily growing the components for potions and the like.

[As for the rest of the mages,] I'm afraid it's hard to get to know anyone with my friends here constantly lingering.

[He gestures behind him to the two guards again.]

Speaking with anyone at length is a privilege.