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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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[temp_ered]

Yesterday he had woken up as no one

[andcountry]

Cephiro looked up, and smiled when he saw that the newcomer was another boy of about his apparent age.

"Hi," he said, moving his hand to wave or something - and then finding he couldn't. Looking down, he saw the little vine wrapped around his wrist. "Oh."

He chuckled a little nervously as he worked to get it off.

[temp_ered]

Well, this boy seemed friendly. That helped. Clow continued climbing until they were of a level, while the other attempted to rescue his arm from the plant's hold. Glancing down, he was momentarily overwhelmed by the sight. Surely he'd never seen anything like this before.

"This place is really pretty," he said, his tone holding some wonder. He rescued the sleeve of his newborn shirt from another questing vine and just looked for a long moment.

[andcountry]

Cephiro just nodded, still smiling. He felt a little awkward when silence fell over the two of them once again, but somehow he wasn't sure that was as big a deal. After all, the other boy had greeted him with "ummmm." He got the feeling that they were of a similar level of social prowess.

"What's your name?" he asked, after a few moments. He had decided that the child was obviously new - there were only so many children in Edensphere, and although Cephiro hadn't spoken to many of them he was fairly sure he at least knew of them all.

[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! >

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"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?"

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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. >

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"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?"