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[badgerlet]

Characters: Daine and vatheon
Location: Northeast edge of the bubble
Time: Morning
Style: I will match you /o/
Status: Open!

Here's an interesting sight for you, Vatheon.

If you're in any area with animals around, you'll notice that they're behaving very oddly. Most of them are stopping, twitching, turning as though looking for something; and the majority of

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[the_last_esper]

"How...are you doing that?" Terra's voice was soft, but it carried with a strange ease, "I've never seen animals do that before."

She was an avid animal lover - especially where Moogles and Chocobos were concerned - but this...

This was new.

[badgerlet]

Daine found herself pulled from her meditation at the sound of another voice, one spoken aloud rather than in her mind. She blinked her eyes open, first taking notice of the gathering of animals around and on her. She shook her head, plucking a squirrel from her hair.

We'll work on this, she told the group, but you can't do that! It scares the two-leggers. I'll finish greeting you all later.

They didn't disperse; Daine just sighed, shook her head, and smiled up at Terra. "I've a knack with animals," she said easily. "Or-- well, wild magic, we call it. I look like a two-legger-- human-- on the outside, but on the inside I'm People-- animal."

[the_last_esper]

People-- animal? Terra tilted her head, trying to figure out exactly what the woman meant. Something told her that Daine could be classified as other. If anyone could understand that particular category, it would be Terra.

"I wish I could speak to them." she knelt down, laying her hands on her lap, "I like animals. I...always have. They don't judge."

Unconditional support and love: that was what Terra saw when she encountered other creatures. Humans had yet to comprehend the depth and strength of such an attribute.

[badgerlet]

Daine giggled. "Some do. Whales are fair judgemental, and I've met some wolves who aren't so friendly-- but for the most part you're right. Things tend to be simpler with them. Though sometimes around me they seem to-- change a bit."

The squirrel she'd taken from her hair leaped off her hands, bounding over to Terra.

"Would you like to speak with them?" Daine asked. The majority of the animals were beginning to drift away with Terra's arrival, but a few of the more curious ones hung around on the edges. Squirrels tended to be nosy. "I can translate, if you like."

[singularjustice]

The movement of the animals has certainly caught N's attention. He is fascinated with all these new Pokemon, for he knows no other name for them, who he sees coming out of hiding and racing towards the north-east part of the bubble.

He has let his own Pokemon out of their Poke balls, content to let them free of the confines as long as he can get away with. They do not leave him when they feel the pull, but it obviously effects them; heads are raised and eyes turned towards the call.

It is a short conversation between trainer and Pokemon before they are all walking north-east, Archeops and Reshiram in the air, the rest following N. If Daine comes to anytime soon, she will discover a green-haired boy staring at her, his team gathered around him with curious stares of their own.

[badgerlet]

Daine opens her eyes when new dots of coppery fire enter her magical vision. Though this fire is mostly the same as the animals to which she is accustomed, it's dotted with different colours-- some earthy, some black, none quite the same. Daine is incredibly curious to see the cause of this, and when she does, her jaw nearly drops.

"Look at you beauties," she breathes, forgetting to speak with her mind rather than her voice. "I've never seen the likes of you before."

[singularjustice]

Her comment makes N smile brightly, and the Pokemon shift amongst themselves, seemingly pleased as well. Reshiram is the boldest, stepping forward and dropping her great head towards Daine, sniffing her.

You are something special, the dragon notes, perfectly confident in her ability to judge such things.

[badgerlet]

Daine is surprised by the clarity of the voice in her head. Reshiram's magical fire to her is not copper, like the others'; it is more similar to the golden colour she sees in griffins and in Kitten, but still there is something different-- she's not quite the same sort of dragon that Daine knows, just as the other points of copper fire she has never seen before.

Me? I'm not special, Daine smiles, I just have a bit of four-legger in me. Now, you, you're fair beautiful. What are you, if you don't mind my asking? I've never seen your like before.

[scaresplants]

[Now this is interesting.]

[Crowley is the Serpent of Eden, and he hasn't seen these many animals in one place since being in the Garden. He can't help but feel curious, and he approaches slowly, a strange feeling of belonging present somewhere inside of him.]

Are you some kind of animal charmer or what?

[badgerlet]

[Daine is pulled from her meditation and greeting the animals by the sound of a spoken voice. She opens her eyes and looks up.

She hasn't seen magical fire like his in her vision before: like one of the immortals or animal gods, only with a sick feeling, like the spidrens and hurroks. She stares for a moment, then realises he's asked a question and shakes her head]

I'm a wild mage. The People-- animals-- here just haven't met me before, so I've come to say hello.

[scaresplants]

And they just come to you, huh?

[Just like he came to her, he muses. How ironic.]

Can you talk with them?

[badgerlet]

They find me interesting. They don't see a lot of two-leggers-- humans-- who are like them. [smile] I can talk with them, share their minds, heal them, and take an animal's form.