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[floral_powder]

[ In the early afternoon, Polka is working in the garden rather busily - there's quite a lot of it to make sure the flowers are healthy. But as promised, she has her journal open so that the video can catch the flowers blooming in the garden.I guess I got a little carried away - but I think it looks nice still. What do you think? [ A second later

Comments

[heteropennae]

That's... amazing!

[floral_powder]

[ Giggle ]

Thank you! Although I really shouldn't take credit for something like this. I just take care of them.

[heteropennae]

I thought flowers this beautiful could only grow in the Sacred Place...

[floral_powder]

Huh? Sacred Place...? Do you mean a church?

[heteropennae]

Mm, no. The Sacred Place was, for some time, my home. It was a forest.

[floral_powder]

Oh...! It must have been beautiful, but..what made it sacred?

[heteropennae]

It was a sort of sanctuary for outcasts. Humans wouldn't go near it. They called it the "Devil's Resting Place".

[floral_powder]

.. the Devil's Resting Place? ... that doesn't sound like a very good name for a sanctuary...

[heteropennae]

It was a name given to it by fearful humans, so...

[floral_powder]

.. but what was there to be afraid of..? [ Man, Polka can really relate to the whole outcast/being feared by humans thing. Even if she doesn't look it. ]

[heteropennae]

... I was there.

[floral_powder]

... did you see something frightening that was keeping them away? [ She doesn't get it D: ]

[heteropennae]

I was what they feared.

[floral_powder]

You? ... but you're not scary at all...

[ . . . oh! Maybe... ] Do you use magic...? Did they think you were contagious too?

[heteropennae]

It's... a long story. One I don't fully understand myself. I am hated and feared because of what I am... and the terrible power I posses.

[floral_powder]

[ Polka sighs softly. ] I think I understand ... people are afraid of what they don't understand, and believe things about people without getting to know them. I'm sure if people had met you, they would have seen how nice you are.