un: karma (video)

[torpour]

[the view is not of nehan as the username attached to this video would imply, but of two different plants preserved in jars on a countertop. no erune on your screens today.]

I have a request-- more specifically, an offer for fair trade. If you have an abundance of unwanted plants in your house, please bring them to me. Or I can visit your dwelling and remove them myself. Name your price. [a pause, then his gloved hand comes from the top of the camera, pointing at the plants from left to right.] In particular, I'm interested in these. Lacrimosa, which only blooms in dark areas where no sources of light reach, reeds from an island from my world for healing.

[no one asked him what the plants do, but he rambled anyway because he's a nerd.]

But any plant you don't want will do. They'll be useful, in one way or another.

Also, Flynn, Richie: this is the best opportunity I can give you when it comes to learning and making your own medicines.

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[torpour]

I cant assume what the people back then thought. I can only recall what was passed down from word of mouth, and whatever memoirs were written back then.

[though he doesn't feel too bad about making her confused over the state of his family. he has shared the same views for a long time, and he was the only one who did.]

But I agree with you-- it's stupid. Unfortunately it's only obvious when you're well-removed from the situation, as I was growing up.

[fogsong]

[ He agreed it was stupid and she blinks, more curious now. ]

How'd you manage to be removed from it? [ He'd been born there, after all. Alessa would have grown up believing in the Order if she hadn't been the target of their abuse. Even then, it required them to sacrifice her to fully see what they really were. ]

[torpour]

[how to say that the clan made a child snap and kill everyone, and nehan was the only survivor because he ran away? you don't, he decides, because it's a tale that he'd rather not admit to someone he's just met. so he decides to tell only a portion of the truth.]

I ran away as a child. I found their overreliance and strict adherence to tradition too restrictive, especially when the village was heading towards its last legs. A dwindling population and no new blood... I was tired of it. [which is all true, but the erune's next words are mostly false.]

I learned to be independent quickly after that.

[fogsong]

[ That all makes sense to her. It's a bit of a surprise that a child would be willing to leave everything they'd once known but she can understand it in some ways. If things hadn't turned out the way they had for Alessa, she might've run away, too. ]

Damn, that's pretty impressive for a kid. It must've been scary to strike out on your own, though. Don't think it's something I could've done.

[ Sharon removes another flower from the ground. It's gotten easier and quicker now that she knows what she's doing after having paid attention to how Nehan worked. ]

[torpour]

It worked out in the end. [no it did not, but nehan has no qualms in lying now that this half-truth has been cemented.] I've grown to be an adult, I have life skills that I can use...

[he raises one shoulder in a shrug.]

I also had a job before arriving here-- but I also have a job here, as well.

[fogsong]

[ It seems to her that it more than worked out for him. Even if it was tough to strike out on his own, he got out; he didn't fall into the same trap the rest of his village had. ]

Did you ever think about going back?

[torpour]

Sometimes. [nehan pauses in his work to pat the displaced soil back into the holes they made, keep the ground even rather than let the holes grow bigger later.] I don't have unfinished business to fret over.

[then he sighs.]

I wont lie and say I don't have anyone waiting for me back in my home world, but I have people here, now.