[action]

[diseasing]

[So, you're in the orchards for some reason. Maybe you're exploring or just taking a walk. Maybe you're gathering food. Maybe you're lost and you wound up there by mistake. No matter what the reason, you're there, though, and you've come across a certain pair of trees.]

[Now, there's nothing unusual about this trees themselves. It's what's between

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[notvitiligo]

[It's not a centipede, so it's fine in Jessica's book! She's just going to stand back and watch this thing. Though, of course, she's definitely ready to run like hell, because, y'know, giant predator.]

[notvitiligo]

OK, that is kind of scary, yeah. But you don't want to a lot, do you? And can you fix it?

[diseasing]

I don't do it for no reason! [She sounds defensive.] And I can make people not sick, but I'm not very good at it...

[notvitiligo]

...sometimes there's an important difference between having a reason and having a good reason.

I'd say you could practice it, but I don't think we're going to be sick a lot here, and I don't think you're going to have many volunteers for getting-sick duty.

[diseasing]

[Yamame can't really argue with that, so she just puffs up her cheeks again.] It's still not fair that they all hate me before even getting to know me...

[notvitiligo]

Yes.

[She looks at the grass under the web.]

I know how that feels...

[diseasing]

[She looks down as well, her expression turning uncharacteristically upset. But it's not long before she looks up again, forcing some cheer into her voice.]

Do you need help finding a place to build?

[notvitiligo]

Well, no- [Oh, wait, she recognizes that gesture!]

Maybe? Seems you're pretty good at tree-climbing, right? Maybe you can go up pretty high and see if there's a place that looks pretty flat.

[diseasing]

Yeah, that's right! Just find me a really tall tree, and I can climb it no problem.

[notvitiligo]

Excellent. [TREE QUEST!]

Y'know, your web... stuff would probably be good for building or something. Assuming it's got the same properties as regular spiderweb, at least.

[diseasing]

Yeah, I know. Us earth spiders have a reputation for being good at building.

[notvitiligo]

Well, you're in the right place, I guess...

[diseasing]

You think so?

[notvitiligo]

Since we're supposed to build here...

[diseasing]

That's what we were brought here for? No one told me that...

[notvitiligo]

Well, I don't know what we were really brought for... but the scroll said to build, so... [Shrug]