002 ☁ Video & Action

[temperedtempest]

[If you're listening to the journal, you might see and hear the flash of lightning and an accompanying rumble of thunder. A quick glance outside will tell you it's a clear, cloudless day; but on the journal you might spy a miniature raincloud floating just under the steady hand of a woman kneeling in the grass.]

[Back home, Ororo had a neat little

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[skinnotmyown]

[Ororo.

It's watching you. mO_Om]

That is a useful skill you have.

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[temperedtempest]

[sixties!Charles, is that you]

[Ororo glances up just as the last of her tiny thundercloud fades away.]

It is rather versatile. Thank you.

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[skinnotmyown]

[H-hahaha, not quite, no. Oh god.]

Only a few years ago, I would have wished for the same skill. You use it well.

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[temperedtempest]

Oh? What has changed, since then? If you do not mind my asking.

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[skinnotmyown]

The situation. Such vast, immediate quantities of water were no longer what were desired or needed.

[That was, gosh, at least three whole weeks ago! Practically ancient history!]

Even now, the vast amounts of green here amaze me.

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[temperedtempest]

[That piques her curiosity a bit. She can relate, somewhat - she spent many years in the desert of the Serengeti, and moving to temperate America was a bit of a shock as well.]

[Still...]

What kind of a world would have no need for rain?

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[skinnotmyown]

A beautiful one.

[Well, okay, he might not be keen on telling people his plans, but he'll talk about Arrakis all day.]

A desert planet, feared by outsiders and much beloved and much hated by her inhabitants. It has small pockets of water, but nothing like the abundance here.

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[temperedtempest]

[How interesting. Ororo turns to give him her full attention so she can listen attentively.]

I can understand that. I spent some of my formative years in a desert as well - a harsh but beautiful environment to be sure. [and her powers were such that she was hailed as a goddess for bringing them rain, but that is beside the point.]

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[skinnotmyown]

Then you must know very well the necessity of carefully rationing one's water, and why I find so much green life to be so surprising.

[And unsettling. Leto will look at flowers, but he won't touch.]

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[temperedtempest]

It had been surprising, yes. But to be surrounded by so much life, it's a beautiful thing. That I can use my gifts to help cultivate and nurture them is an extraordinary experience.

[She'll notice his looking and will decide to carefully pluck one - an African violet - from its leaves.]

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[skinnotmyown]

Beautiful but dangerous. One could easily become complacent, surrounded by all this.

[He gestures at the flowers and--more broadly--the trees in the area. Green. Not his thing. 8'C ]

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[temperedtempest]

Complacent is an odd way to put things. It's an entirely different environment than that of a desert; there's nothing to be complacent about, I don't think.

[And here, Leto. Ororo will be offering you the plucked violet. It won't bite, honest. Unless touching flowers burns your skin and she missed it?]

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[skinnotmyown]

[How polite is Leto feeling today? ...Eh, polite enough. He holds out his hand so Storm can drop the flower into it.]

There are ready resources here. No one wants for anything and no one considers the resources they are using. For me, that is complacency.