starhuevalley | The second scale

[With things being as they are as of late and "Violet" not really getting anywhere with the whole trying to work out who she is thing going on she's been doing her best to distract herselfs from the stresses and strains of farm life...namely raising mushrooms, trying to avoid another anxiety attack from Taako and definitely avoiding mineshafts for the time being.

Maybe it's time to reach out? Maybe address more people by making her face known around the valley. And as such she fiddles with her device and attempts to make herself known somehow.]

Uh Hi, hello... don't mind me!

I uhm...I've been in the valley for a few weeks now and still no luck in finding out anything about who I am or where I came from. So I was planting mushrooms as you do and a great thought came to me! What's the one thing all of us have to have in common...?

Families! We all must have come from families of some kind, right? So...[She adjusts herself and tucks one of her bangs behind her ear and coughs gently.] maybe, I thought--

I thought if you could tell me about your families that maybe... just maybe I might remember what mine's like.

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...What kind of animal is a raptor anyway?

Kind of like a dragon... only much much smaller. And their wings are where their arms would be. But they're flimsy little things. They can't do any great flying. Just a bit of gliding if that.

And people...eat them?

Sounds kind of harsh to me.

In the defense of, well, all people they would eat us first if given the chance.

[That still doesn't sound right for some reason. Why would these creatures try and eat them in the first place...?]

And no one's ever thought to try and reason with them? No wonder they're angry.

I'm afraid I don't... They're just animals. They can't talk or understand. Like chickens and such.

[If they can't make dragons that do talk and understand be reasonable then there is no helping a raptor.]

I think you might be misunderstanding the situation... just a little bit.

Maybe, but it still feels wrong to me somehow. I don't know why.

[Don't worry H, there's a very good chance you'll meet one sooner than you think.]

How could anyone decide to take the life of something like that and then eat it?

Well... we all need to eat to survive. Where I'm from there is blistering snow and cold. Very little can be grown so we need to find some other way to get nourishment and that's what the creatures around us are for.

Do you not eat other animals then...? Just plants and fruit?

Of course I do! But--

[She's failing to make her point but she feels so passionate abut this. It's like a burning in her chest she needs to get rid of and so she shall.]

Would you do the same to like... I don't know a Unicorn or something?! Dragons have every right to live a normal life without living in fear of being eaten! They're amazing creatures! Just because you don't understand them doesn't mean you have the right to hurt them!

[Whoa...Violet calm down. Girl, you alright?]

[So that's where the confusion lies.]

Now... Raptors aren't dragons. Perhaps that was a poor comparison on my end. They're more like... overgrown lizards then.

[Do people eat and use dragons skin and bones for all sorts? Yes... but that's not anything he's going to bring up. Along with unicorns. Oh... and he's definitely not going to say all that his people have done to dragons. Nope.]

I still don't think it's right...

[And yet she's quite happy when it comes to eating other sources of meat. She seems quite protective of anything big and scaley though. Odd huh?]

I'm having a hard time understanding, truly. You eat meat, as you clearly stated. But eating lizards isn't okay? What makes eating a lizard different from a chicken?

But it's not a lizard it's a--!

[They're clearly not getting anywhere with this conversation are they?]

Look, it's stupid but...can we just drop the subject? I think we've gotten way off track here.

[It was a very flustering conversation one that he only seemed to somehow to upset the young lady more and more. Which was not his intent by any means.

Perhaps just cultural differences and all...]

My apologies all the same. I had not meant to upset you so.

It's fine, I just...

[She sighs.] I shouldn't have got so upset over it, It's stupid really.

Things that upset someone are surely no such thing. Of this I promise.

[He offers an apologetic bow of the head. Granted he's not sure what he's done but if it's enough to upset someone then it must be remedied so not to be done again.

No talking of eating lizards in the future. Understood.]

[She smiles briefly at him. At least he's kind enough to admit his mistake.]

Well, thank you.

...Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm a mess?

Well... it seems you don't recall a great deal about yourself. So maybe that isn't too fair of a statement. Perhaps that's a better term saved for when you can recall a bit clearer.

Far be it from me to say one way or the other... I know a great many people that may agree with you on your stance. [Not on lizards but dragons... He's honestly so confused and doesn't want to bring it back up.] To each their own and what they stand for.

[Yeah, she seems very touchy on the subject of dragons and even she doesn't know why.]

Let me make it up to you. You can have any pick of mushrooms you want? I guess that's all I'm good for growing at the moment...

You certainly need not make anything up to me as I am the one that offended you most so it seems.

[Mushrooms are food though and food is most certainly needed at this juncture. Until he can start planting things of his own it may be a bit rough.]

But I would hate to turn down the offering. Perhaps we can come to an accord of some sort? Should you offer the mushrooms I will make a meal using them for the two of us. That should smooth things over nicely, do you not agree?

Sure, that sounds great. [It seems a little strange to be doing this. Perhaps not even right...but he seems friendly enough and he's not really done anything to truly offend her. Food and chat would be a nice change of pace.]

I'll let you know which I've picked a select few.

I look forward to it!

[Getting everything back on the right foot is important. And nothing gets that done better than warm tasty food and good, in person, conversation.]

Please do not hesitate to come calling or send a message via... this.

I won't... and thank you again for at least talking to me even if we did get off to a slightly rocky start.

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