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[oftaintedearth]

[Click, tap, click, KKRRRRRRKT, that's definitely the sound of someone fiddling with their jPad. Do they realize it's on? Are they - yup! There, fingers on the camera lens. Wow those are pretty bony fingers - wait, are those made of wood? A soft voice mutters, slightly muffled by what's probably a hand on the speaker.]

Ah, I think that's it? It's doing...

[Finally, a hand moves, and there's a young woman's face, peering down at the camera with a look of curiosity and concentration.]

Yes, the light's on. I think that means it's working. Hello? ...hmm...

[Clearly she's a bit unfamiliar with the device. She also almost camouflages with the tree behind her, almost as if she's a tree herself. Still, she seems to be learning her way around, poking experimentally around the screen. Suddenly she has a ring of flowers across her hairline - does that count as hair? She lets out of soft "oh!" of surprise, then laughs in delight.]

How charming!

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[stormsprite]

[Already being familiar with the concept of other worlds even before she came here, Celia honestly doesn't have any questions about how Melanthieae looks like she's part tree, or maybe an actual sentient tree, reasoning to herself that the woman is likely her own world's form of nature spirit or something similar. Celia herself is her own world's form of wind elemental, so if anything, the dryad's presence is something of a slightly-familiar one, even if they've never met before.

The girl already has some familiarity with how this sort of thing works, too; the last communication device she'd used was more or less a magic rock, but the jPad honestly doesn't seem to be too much different otherwise. However, familiarity with how it works doesn't necessarily mean that she immediately identifies what's what, and so she doesn't realize that the camera is way too close to her face when she responds:]

Hello! Yep, it's working!

I'm gonna guess that you've never seen somethin' like it before. It's kinda neat, isn't it?

[oftaintedearth]

Ah, hello! Er, you're a little too close, dear.

Oh, I have, one of my shipmates at home has one, though he called it a slate. I never got a chance to take a good look at it though.

[stormsprite]

Oh, whoops, hang on. [She moves the jPad from her face a bit, then her eyes catch the device's camera, she adjusts the position and angle she's holding it at a little bit more. With these adjustments comes a view of where Celia currently is: on the roof of the house that she's sharing with Manfred and Firestorm. How'd she get up there?] I think this is better. Is this better?

There's something kinda similar to these back in the last world I was in, but these things are still pretty different from what I'm used to. [Compared to the runes, these jPads do way more stuff and it's actually pretty amazing to her.

She still has her rune with her, actually, it's inside the house and sitting among what bit of stuff she'd brought here with her. She doubts very much that it works right now, and even if it does still work, it would probably only be able to connect to anyone else who also came from the havens, assuming they brought theirs as well.]

A~nyway, you're prolly wondering, "who is this girl, anyway?" [She visibly bounces in place a bit, probably adjusting her position a bit but the view that her jPad's camera provides makes it hard to know for sure.] My name's Celia!