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((For the breeding RP))

As she walked around the building and led Aria and Ianios through thr portal, Emperial explained the situation in the simplest terms possible.

"This is Luun," she said, lifting Luun ever so slightly, "and he's the new summoner. Since he's a summoner, he has to summon blooms, but he explained to us that he can't just do them the normal way with the plant, he can only do them with other feien, in breedings. Are you two familiar much with the breeding process?"

"That's essentially it," Emperial nodded. "But there are risks. There's a ten percent chance that one of you could end up with a mutation. That may not seem like much, but it's already occured once, and we've only have three breedings. Additionally, your children have a chance of getting mutations, about the same chance as you do."

Luun nearly had a heart attack at the question. His eyes squeezed shut and his fists gripped Emperial's palm tightly. "I-I-I w-wuh--"

"Best leave Luun alone," said Emperial coldly, shooting Ianios a disapproving glare. No matter how good his intentions or innocent the question, the topic was already one Luun was overly sensitive about. A brief encounter with Fifth guaranteed that.

They were in front of Em's house now. She pushed her way inside without fanfare, holding the door open for her feien guests.

Emperial headed for a heavy burnt copper curtain and nudged it aside. The other side of the curtain was a soft grey faux fur. The room beyond was small, intended as a sunroom, but Emperial was using it as a cramped computer room. Her computer desk sat in one corner, a small dresser in the other. It was amazing that a human fit into this space at all.

Even more amazing was the vibrant green plant sitting atop the dresser. Em motioned for Aria and Ianios to approach it and settled down in her computer chair, that being the only place a human could fit.

"For a few days after the breeding, you'll both be in bloom state," continued Emperial, rocking slightly in her chair. "This is how your genes become interfaced the the plant. I'll deliver your blooms to your bond when the breeding is done and work out what will happen to the blooms resulting from the process with her."

"That's Luun's function," said Emperial, gently depositing Luun in the stalks of the plant. "All you need to do is place one hand on the plant, and the other in contact with Luun." Which was probably easier said than done, given the way Luun was clinging to the plant's leafy stalks and peering out from behind the canopy of leaves.

Luun hung down from the plant, his legs wrapped around one of the leaves, and held out his hands. "D-d-don't m-move," he managed.

Luun closed his eyes very tightly and concentrated as hard as he was able. The stalk he was attached to began to glow, and the glow quickly spread to Luun, Aria and Ianios.

Emperial shielded her eyes against the light, and in the few seconds she had her gaze averted, it was done. Confused, she looked over at the plant and saw seven blooms.

"You're done?" she said, surprised. Corvus had taken easily twice, three times as long, maybe even more, and he had never done a breeding when he was a juvenile.

With a nod, Luun disentangled himself from the leaf and fell into a heap on the potting soil. Emperial gasped, partly in amazement at his accomplishment, partly in concern, and partly at her own stupidity -- for a moment there, she had forgotten Luun could not fly.

She gently lifted him from the dirt and found he was fast asleep, completely tired out by the effort. "Good job, Luun," she whispered to him, and was secretly pleased that she had finally stopped calling him "it."

Now, to figure out what to do with all these blooms...