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Characters: andcountry and YOU
Date/Time: March 22nd, early afternoon
Location: Residential area
Rating: G
Summary: Cephiro ponders the Blank Slate Wilderness and is hugged by some plants.

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[azhdarchidae]

Above plunged down into the mist below the islands and found herself among branches again. While banking around them, she wondered about it. Did she disappear there and appear here, like most people thought? Or was there a chain of connected, identical Edenspheres, and she was moving in synch with the Aboves on every other link?

Why not both? A chain of identical Edenspheres making a big closed circle. If she dove for long enough, she would come back to the start.

It wasn't really important. The important thing was and always would be flight. There really was nothing like it.

Above saw a boy sitting on a branch looking down and swerved, her wing membranes arching and slackening in turn.

< Are you going to jump? > she called out. < It's fun, but you probably shouldn't! >

[andcountry]

"Huh?" Cephiro looked up, startled. He had seen Above around before, and had even spoken to her - though, he thought, only once. "Wouldn't that sort of mean death?"

[azhdarchidae]

She twitched her pteroids and swerved to land on all fours on the side of a branch, gripping irregularities in the bark with her clawed fingers and toes, folding her flight fingers away.

< No, if you hit something, you're falling slowly and don't die. If you don't hit something, you end up looping and I catch you so you don't die of thirst, > she informed him. < Or someone gets you with a rope or fetches a dragon or something. >

[andcountry]

"Oh..." Cephiro looked down at the bare sky between his feet. "You're right, I probably shouldn't."

He might do it anyway, but not right this second. Instead he looked back to her and smiled. "Above, right?"

[azhdarchidae]

< If there's another talking quetzalcoatlus in the tree, I want to hear about it,> she said lightly. < Translation: yes. Do I have your name...? >

[andcountry]

He chuckled. "I don't know - I think we've spoken once? I'm Cephiro."

[azhdarchidae]

< Must not have been a long talk. Hi. >

Above turned her long head and discouraged a creeping vine with a nip from the very tip of her beak. < So if you're not going to jump, what are you doing up here? >

[andcountry]

"Hi." He smiled easily, but then her motion made him aware of the small vine snuggling his wrist. He shook it off absently.

"I was just thinking. ... You don't go into the Wildrness too often, do you?"

[azhdarchidae]

< Not really. I'm a little big for the elevator. > She couldn't hit the buttons with beak or claw, no matter what she did. Not that she'd say that here, when she wasn't relying on someone to hit them for her. < Thought about being an Adventurer, but I don't need money. >

Not now that it was getting warmer, anyway. And February had at least left her with some money from her stint in Housekeeping.