Characters: Flynn and anyone who wants/needs to have a talk with him
Location: Park outside the Jedi temple
Planet: Coruscant
When: Post-event, which would make it... Week 21
What: Meditating in the park. Conversations. Catching up. What have you.
Rating: Should be G. Ish.
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... how productive doing nothing can be. )
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It was somewhere nearby. Flynn shook his head and gently rose to his feet, careful to carry his body mindfully of the he'd spent still and kneeling. Inside the Grid, this could be handled more easily. Out here, he was by now used to the ways muscles and bones and sinew complained when he pushed them too hard, at his age. Well... his apparent age.
He walked in the direction from which the noise had come until he could see his friend, prone on the ground, and then knelt beside him.
"Tron? You all right?"
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He gaped for a moment, glancing at him, at the tall things around them, to the rock wall he'd tumbled over, and back down to the hair - small, flat, tapered strips, now that he had a better look at them - before he was shifting and pushing himself up to his feet unharmed, his fingers brushing and stroking through the colorful blades and analyzing the sensation of them running through his fingers.
"Flynn. I'm fine, I just-...wha-...why...? Why does the ground grow hairThey'd never had anything covering the ground on the Grid, save for the boulders and "sand" the User had coded in the Outlands. Was this something that Flynn had seen in his own world, or was it one of the things about this world that followed rules separate from his User's own home? He stared up at Flynn with a wide-eyed ( ... )
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After a moment, he caught himself, arm going around Tron's shoulders. "Sorry, man. It's not hair - it's called grass. Grass is a kind of plant. So are bushes," he pointed to some - and then another kind, just to make sure the program didn't get the wrong impression that that kind of bush is called a bush, "and trees." More pointing. "And flowers. They are generally a life form which has roots in the ground and doesn't move around a lot. And comes in near-infinite variety. Every plant has a name, and I'm pretty sure it's impossible to know the name of every plant you'll ever see. Unless you stay in a small area and learn every name there."
It was... a crash course. Really.
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But then he's explaining things to him, and Tron's confusion melts into absolute curiosity. Despite himself, he's found he's absolutely fascinated with User-world things, and it shows. He glances at each thing he names and memorizes each name and type for future reference. And then the circuits in his mind come to a bit of a sputtering halt when he realizes two things: He's been walking on top of living things, and Root here must mean something different then on the Grid ( ... )
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"So...the sun works like an energy pool? And then plants drink the energy it makes and...do...this?" He glanced around. There didn't seem to be a whole lot to "this," but if it worked for them, then that was good enough for him. "And the non-plant life forms eat the plant life forms to...take the energy they have? Why does it not trouble the plants, to be ingested that way? They do not survive the process, do they?" And boy, didn't that thought make the whole end-result of the digestion thing Users did even more uncomfortable to think about?
He blinked at the last note, looking from the flower he was touching and back up to him, as if it took a moment to register. "You mean Users eat non-plant life forms...? How?" He certainly didn't remember eating any...life forms. Just steaks. And breads. And eggs. And...oh...the peculiar shape of ( ... )
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