Welcome to Gaia! ::

Sir Valdemar took a few moments to ponder how to explain this. It was hard enough to explain to his own kind, let alone to someone from a different race from a different world altogether.

"The world was far different from anything you might imagine," he replied finally. "When you think of weather, you think of clouds, and sun, and moon, and the like, don't you?"

Of course she did.

"But when this world was new, there was none of that at all," he explained slowly. "So I suppose you could say ... there was no weather at all. The plants grew everywhere, and they weren't the plants like you see today." He shook his head slowly. "No. These plants were enormous ... and lucious. Beautiful ... as the plants of today, even the most beautiful, can only strive to become. There were no buildings, in that you are correct, though." He nodded.

Lin tried to imagine that, she supposed in the Second world there was no moon, but it could be just because they went during the day. No... she was sure there was a sun, but it was always shining, there were clouds but only enough for that wispy forever summer feel.

She didn't know if there were plants in the Second World that did not grow on Gaia... it was a lot like Gaia only... emptier.

"So everyone just lived outside?"

Well.. that's what most Seconds did, only down did some of them begin to make homes... and the mers.. well she thought the mers would be living out in the open for quite a long time to come.


Yue nodded as he followed Nadya, he looked at the building and thought it would do. He looked at the door carefully taking a finger and frosting the door with his mark. Of a lunar phrase for those familiar with the runic system for the cycle.

Mia watched as she followed behind clutching her stuffed cat against her chest. Things she thought were going to get interesting.

Outside?

In the technical sense of the word, yes. But ... it wasn't as if they hadn't had homes. It was hard to explain, and could be much more simply expressed through images, as he had in the library.

"If you would like," he offered as they reached the ground floor, "I can show you after our meal."

"Yes," Lin replied back, "I want to see if it's like where I came from," she paused, "Well... not come from, come from, but where I was..."

She paused, born wasn't a right word she was born in the inn.

"Well... where my vase came from," she finally decided.

Yes, that had sounded right to her.

The moon phrases glowed and faded one by one until only one was left, it was that one that Yue touched and the door opened leading to another land, one that looked very different from the planation but to be fair, it was barren when he looked.

"There."

Triton would be the first to admit it didn't look inviting, but if that was where they were go then it was where they would go. He nodded for a moment before following Donovan's lead.

Gion recognized the barrenness of the plains and nodded to himself darkly. Yes. That was where they needed to go. He felt no pleasure at the idea of returning, but if that was what was needed ...

He took Nadya's hand and led her into the portal and into the Northland.

"My vase," Lin replied as if it was the most normal thing in the world, "That's where we come from," she blinked, "Oh wait... no... Cindy came from a feather.... and Jin came from a painting.... and didn't Triton get born by some magic portal..." she thought about it for a moment trying to think about where all her family members came from, "Okay well six of us.. no wait.. I forgot those people my siblings had," she counted on her fingers, "Fifteen of us come from vases, and everyone else came from something else, though Yuki says that Mommy and Daddy came from inside a person but I don't see how that would work very well."

She sat down and looked at the food in front of her, and wondered if she was required to use a fork, maybe if she stabbed it.


Yue waited for Mia to go in before going in after her and shutting the door behind him. The place where they appeared he left one more moon mark so it could be activated upon leaving.