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[ Have fun with that, Alvin. Red isn't going into to your restaurant!!!

But for now, he's nodding. ] People crowding around them asking the same questions over and over-- it has to be exhausting even for an arehtei, and no one's going to get any answers when they're crowding around talking over each other. And if there's people who know how to speak to the arhetei when they come around...

[ There was a thought he was going with there, but it drifts away from him a little. Regardless... ]

When I talked to Elios, it didn't sound like they really needed to stick around humans in the past. So right now, even they need help knowing what they can do to get along with everyone better.

[Dammit, you mean Alvin is supposed to bring that up with all that apathy stuff going on?? Fine, fine, it can probably be swung around...]

It sounds weird to hear that they didn't want to be with humans. All these memories and visions seem to indicate they at least once used to be with people. [...Hm.] Maybe things changed over time. Spirits in my world were the same.

They're guardians of the planet, not humans, is what Elios said it. I guess I get it more now than I did when we talked; everything was fine, so they decided to go to sleep. They got visions and feelings of what was going on in the world, but it seemed like whatever people used in the war back then woke them up pretty suddenly. I mean, if it wasn't that bad for them to wake up before that...

[ It's a subject to soften his mood some, mouth dropping at the memory of the discussion. ] All they knew to do was to get rid of the problem by then, and then they carried those emotions for all that time... so many people lost their lives, and the arehtei continued to suffer.

[ ... ] I hope it never comes to that again.

Wait, they were asleep? Like... Hibernating?

And then to wake up to a mess like humans and wars... [Still, that's a lot of new things to mull over.]

He said a war wasn't anything strange; it was how big it was, and what they used. He wouldn't even describe it to me. [ So, pretty bad. ]

I guess it was like hibernating, though. It sounded like it lasted a long time... long enough for people to forget the old ways, or something like that.

...Huh. Well. That explains a few things. I mean, if the Arehtei had been around the whole time, I highly doubt they would have let things escalate as far as they did.

So whatever this war was like... It really must have been huge if it forced them all to wake and spur them into destructive action like that.

[ He waves his legs once, letting the back of his heels knock against the wall. ]

Maybe one of the other arehtei know about it. [ ah ] Thras said he and Daimonia were the strongest.

...but that's a conversation that might be good for everyone to know about, so we can make sure it stays remembered and doesn't happen a second time.

Yeah, it would. [Eyeing you, Red. Eyeing.]

......What?

[ ????????????? what's with that look ]

You know, you could share what you just told me with other people.

Edited 2015-12-16 09:18 (UTC)

With who? [ uh-- ] I thought other people knew about it already.

[ well, until... just now, apparently. ]

Nope, it's news to me, and I bet a lot of others don't realize it either.

Well..... what should I do? Just tell it to peoples' heads one day?

That's one way of doing it. Although I have very strong feeling you're not the only one who might need to share a few things. I've spoken with Daimonia, and while I didn't learn anything groundbreaking... Maybe I brushed off things I shouldn't have.

Is there anyone we can tell? There must be someone like a... I don't know, a scholar or someone like that who writes these things down. Someone who'll let all the information stay free to everyone.

[ If only they had the internet here. They need a website. ]

The only problem if we talked about it in everyones' heads is that not everyone is going to be free to listen. I know I get distracted a lot, and it's hard to follow if you're talking for ages that way.

Yeah, even I would get an information overload. [And gathering information was his previous occupation.]

I'll think of something. In the meantime, you should go ahead and write down what you've learned so it's not forgotten.

Mm, [ a nod ] okay, I'll do that tonight. Do you want me to give it to you later? I think that's all I really know though. I didn't get to talk to Thras about anything important...

That's fine with me, and don't worry about it. We had a lot of inquisitive folks who went down there, so I'm sure they learned something.

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[ True. How much was there known from down there? Did they have a library? How many people checked that out in three-something days?? ]

Let me know what you find out too. I want to know everything there is to know-- maybe we can start coming up with ideas of what to ask the arehtei that can help out somehow!

That's the spirit. [Grins.] It'll probably be slow going to get things started, but it'll pick up once we've gotten everything.

Who knows? There may even be some answers we weren't even aware of.

[ Answers they weren't even aware of...!?

Don't say things like that. Now he's just sitting there, mind going elsewhere for the moment and a concentrated look on his face as if he can figure them out right there and then.

But there could be so many answers right under their noses! ]

[He sees that look—and he can't help but chuckle.]

Don't hurt your brain yet. Let's see what we can pull out first, all right?

B-- [ does he want to argue that!? Yes he does!!

...but the realisation of how silly that is hits him, and the fighting look turns into something more. Grumpy. Ugh. ]

Alright. [ It's not a very happy defeat. Red takes the petals into a fist, not squashing them, but no longer caring so much for whatever was collected on them and why he was sat here before. He looks down at them, an energy building in a chest warming the chill away from them. ]

I just-- [ his face twists, and he looks back up to Alvin ] I really want to help this place! I don't want to see them break out into stupid fights or get hurt by the arehtei! I don't want to see the arehtei continue to hurt either!

There has to be something we can do!

[This is way too amusing. Kids are great.

But he notices that fist and that look, so while he's still amused, he's at least not so visibly showing it.]

I know. Really, I do. And that kind of spirit and determination is what we'll need to do just that. But we have to start somewhere, and unfortunately that's going to take a little more time and some patience.

Of course, you can always dig on your own, you know.

[ There's more than just a passion or desire to see things turn out for the better present in him, a small frustration in the back of his mind. It's what he wants the most, the words not false, but it would be a lie that there wasn't a more personal drive somewhere in it too.

But getting all huffy here and now about it doesn't help any of that. His lips line hard, pressing down on that urge as best as he can, keeping his face much of the same sour look.

(double ugh) ]

You mean by talking to people?

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