Climbing a forty-meter tree to get a verdant orchard, only to fall down and have it crushed under her weight, Amerie sighs in dismay. How long has she spent looking for the flowers? The two moons have already past peak and it is only a matter of time until sunrise. She wants to find the flower that means to her, but what heart does she have for that flower to bloom—to call for her like pollens would to a butterfly.
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Tilting her head and stretching a few sore and exhausted muscles, she finds a lazy stream to sit down and ponder to her thoughts. Kinguin and the Nautren plain spirits fill her head. She finds it relieving that they are only spirits but Plain spirits are the largest Nautrens on Cyndoryll, and can totally crush Kinguin flat. The present rulers? She does not know them but from what she recalls in the festival, they are worst than the worst Noble she knew back when the entire kingdom went up in flames because of a civil war. A memory that drives the winds to knock off the beads of sweat and rustle the bushes for a caterpillar Nautren to come out. “Woooaooaa?” It curls around the lazy stream, drinking from it.
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Not fair, watching the Nautren dries her throat. And seconds later, she looks around, making sure no eyes are on her before she crawls on all fours and lap on the lazy stream. Cold and refreshing to her dry and exhausted mouth. Ah…the wonders of Nautren waters. So fresh that she burps herself full as she lays her front flat next to the sparkles. Caterpillar Nautren finishes its drinking and decides to walk down the lazy stream before trying to stand on its tiny legs. Giving Amerie a chuckle. “Is it trying to be funny?” She murmurs smiley.
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Before a giant bird with its chin shaped like a bulb fly down from the trees. Patting the caterpillar with its soft curved. “Crook crook” it chirps with the Caterpillar’s “Wooaoaoaoaoo”. Conversing with each other for who knows how long, as Amerie drifts herself asleep. Though, she is not sure, but she thinks she sees the Nautrens coming close to her.
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Mayfairy O’ Mayfairy
Past or Present ye are Amerie
The Living and Greatest Mayfairy
Come, come, with me and my friend
Azigy, to the great embers of living
Where we can help you find the only blooming
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Amerie wakes by a startled branch that fell from its tree. On it are a bundle of mistletoes rooted deeply to the bark. Must have become too heavy for the branch to hold but…she looks own to her standing feet. Nowhere around her is a lazy stream, but two figures—the caterpillar and the bulb chin bird walking towards the Ice capped mountains. She turns back to the little plums of verdant mistletoes and thinks is it really this easy? Maybe because she has not thought about it much as she takes the entire branch and walks back to where the fallen tree is. Although, problem is, where is the fallen tree?
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While flying high up in the air, Peacock finds a safe little creek with a cove. “Is this okay?” He asks to Olwan who in turn asks Pebe. And the Pebble spirit slides down from the great peacock’s feathers and tapped around the small cove.
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Pebe nods, “Sufficient, and will get me there
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“Uhm, Can you tell where is there?” Peacock asks,
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“I know my way back. Siblings and I feel where Alongadol’s life is spreading to the earth.”
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“Right…” Clearly not the answer Peacock wanted which raises Olwan’s brows, “What about you?”
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“Ye, me.” Olwan says, “Best if ye can bring me back where we came.”
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“To the backyard?”
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“No, to the exit where we, ye friends and I, came out of.”
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Meaning the mountain that the dung beetles and weaves have blocked the crack, “You left something there?”
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“Kind of?”
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“Alright then, but be sure to pick off lice.”
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“Of course, take as long as ye like as long as we get there. Fine and well.”
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And Peacock soars to the skies with Olwan picking louse on his back. He sees the giantess being carried on the back of a caterpillar and a bulb chin bird leads it. Peacock wants to fly down and wake the princess but he thinks that she called them and got too tired so she asked them to carry her around. Although it feels nice to have someone pluck out the feather pests, Peacock flies fast to the pink cobweb. Dropping off Olwan as quickly as he flew.
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Then he flies back for where he saw Amerie. Spending fifteen minutes flying around and seeing her on the walk with a branch full of mistletoes. He shrinks himself back to a normal peacock, calling out to her. “Princess, are you okay?”
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Amerie turns to Peacock who comes running to her like a swan. “Peacock, have you found yours as well?”
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“Mine!? I am not sure. But I think I can use my feathers!”
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“Your feathers!? Are they herbs?”
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“I am not sure Princess. But Olwan said that it can be an herb since I am a magical Peacock.”
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“And beasts have magical properties.” Amerie continues, “Yes, wait so she’s still here?”
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“She went back to get Pebe and yeah, she is still here.”
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Both walk for a while with Peacock telling about what he saw from the skies. Amerie also telling her concerns of time and how Kinguin is doing with how close the plain spirits last she saw them. They arrive back at the fallen tree and finds Isaac gone.
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“Where did that boy go?” Peacock asks
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Before the escort comes out from the tree’s trunk saying, “Ye two sure took yer time. Come, the boy was first.”
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“Isaac? Wasn’t he sleeping?” Amerie asks
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“But it turns out he found his herb first faster than ye both.”
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They walk out to the clearing and sure enough, see Isaac sitting on one of the beds, having fun talking to a not so talkative urn. He turns to see the giantess and Peacock, “You two! You would not believe how lady Amarizk talks. She talks through your head. Like, like, something like echolocation!”
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“Ye mean telepathy?” The escort clarifies,
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“RIGHT! Is that right?”
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The escort brings Amerie’s mistletoe branches and five feathers to the inside of lady Amarizk urn. “By the way, I am sure I have yet to introduce meself. I am Escar. Just a Nautrient who believes in prophecies. Lucky that ye three actually found me and not my other siblings who do not believe such things” Bringing a knife to Isaac who the boy voluntarily draws blood from his finger. Letting it drop to a white amaranth flower—having it bleed before Escar drops the herbs to the urn. “I did not expect the feathers.”
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“Could not find anything!” Peacock says,
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“Well, hopefully it is enough. Lady Amarizk?”
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And the urn nods, starting to shake itself. Then Amerie has a question for Escar, “Why don’t the other Nautrens believe?”
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Escar chuckles, “Is our Mayfairy highly knowledgeable? I assume that this question will be yer guide to reach Lady Amarizk words”
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“Wait, no, I meant that as a genuine question.”
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“Oh…well, ye will find the answer once ye resonate with the lady’s soup.”
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“Soup?”
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Amarizk stops shaking and Escar offers a bowl to her mouth. Letting the Nautren vomit out a clear liquid that he offers to the trio. “Ye three should drink, fall into a calm sleep and enter a different realm. Not a dream, but a realm of the past.”
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“Huh…that sounds familiar” Peacock says which Escar plays deaf on anything the bird says by now.
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“Drink” He says
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And Amerie drinks first, followed by Isaac who did not hesitate like the giantess. And Peacock, who cannot turn back into a Hemrean, is last to lap the waters.
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“Then rest yer heads on a bed. Does not matter which ye pick”
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Which they do so except Peacock who says that he will rather sleep like a chicken than lay his back and his front up and calling for a butcher. Escar complies with Peacock. And with three words, “Kyria Testimonium Tzefa”, Amerie, Isaac and Peacock closes their eyes and see the same one old and bald man in their own scenes.
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