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The Wish Tree: Hi!
Haru Harazumi: Ummm...hi?
The Wish Tree: Hi! {Hello!} =Yo!= [yeah, yeah] (Greetings!)
Haru Harazumi: You...errr...said that already.
The Wish Tree: Oh. Hehehe.=ha!= {*giggle*} Sorry (Our apologies, really). We're new to this...talking =speaking= [BABBLING] (prevaricating)...thing.
Haru Harazumi: New to talking? We?
Sherisumagic: can someone awaken me plz
The Wish Tree: We! [US!] (The multitude!) The notes on the tree! We're alive! =All of us!= {Each and every!}
Haru Harazumi: Wait. You mean you're not the tree?
The Wish Tree: No, silly! [moron] (how do YOU know it's a moron?) We are the notes ON the tree. =Y'know...the big green thing with leaves?= {The pretty papers tied with string!} [ninny]
Haru Harazumi: So each of you individually is Animated?
The Wish Tree: YES =yeah= Yup! (That's right, dear!) Good guess!
Haru Harazumi: Wow. Okay! But...how come you talk so much and the other Animated hardly ever speak?
The Wish Tree: We don't know. [Yes...we do!] Okay, we're not SURE. =Yeah...but we definitely have an idea.= Well, of COURSE we have an idea...but...
Haru Harazumi: Wait, wait, wait. I didn't mean to start an argument. But you do have a *guess*?
The Wish Tree: From the stories {we *like* stories} that other people (like yourself) =yes...like yourself= have told us =some of the stories sure were boring...but= (hush!) [You hush!] we think it's because (We *think*!) {Yay!} we had writing on us before we =changed= (Came ALIVE!) {Woke up!} became Animated.
Apokalipse: where r u?
Haru Harazumi: So...if a book became Animated it might be able to talk also?
The Wish Tree: Sure! =maybe= [Definitely NOT] (What? Why not?) We seem to disagree. (Books can't meld thoughts) [Don't tell it that we can do that!] {But they can't!} =How do you know, you ditz...?= SHUTUP!
Haru Harazumi: Okay...so you're guessing a lot. Still, you're the only Animated that I've met that wasn't trying to kill me.
The Wish Tree: Kill you? [hahaHAhaha] {tee-hee} We're tied to these branches! =Couldn't hurt you if we tried.= (We might try though, so be careful.) [UNTIE US!] (hush!)
Sherisumagic: thanks
Haru Harazumi: Okaaaay...since you can't attack me, I'm just going to tie this little wish note to one of these branches.
kassybroken: np
The Wish Tree: Another note! =Always room for one mo-ore...= [More brains for US!] {tieitontieitontieiton!} =yesssssss...=
Haru Harazumi: Then I'll just step in here...and...tie the knot...done.
The Wish Tree: Thank you! =We feel it!= {A little girl wrote on it!} [HUNGRY] -|wha...?where?who?|- {It's waking!} [EAT IT NOW] (No! We need it! More mind for us!) -|I LIVE!|- =WE live, newb.=
Haru Harazumi: That's really quite...disturbing. But I've done what Katsumi asked me to do, so I'll just head back to her now.
The Wish Tree: Wait! (Don't go!) [STAY] We can tell you much. =We have more than enough thoughts...= {We love hearing your wishes.}
Haru Harazumi: Okay, I'll stay and chat with you for a bit.
The Wish Tree: Good! [NO...it's not!] =It is! more info for our brains!= What are your questions?
Haru Harazumi: Have you met any other Animated?
The Wish Tree: We're tied to this tree. =Bound like Prometheus= [VULNERABLE! DOOMED!] {We can't move *sob*} We don't meet anyone unless they come to us first. =And they *never* come.= [All alone with nothing but US.] {And the little notes THEY leave behind for us} (Yes, little one, them too!)
Haru Harazumi: Wow. I didn't think of that.
Haru Harazumi: Do you know how you became Animated?
The Wish Tree: We felt the wind [the LIFE] (*our* lives) {it's everywhere!} move through us all and then {we saw!} (we heard!) =we tasted!= we awoke =Alive, but bound= [HUNGRY] and we knew that we were US and not just paper any longer. [ALIVE]{ALIVE!}=ALIVE!=(ALIVE!)
Haru Harazumi: Yes...but do you know WHY you are alive?
The Wish Tree: An odd question (at least ill-conceived). Do YOU know why you're alive? =Maybe to ask silly questions?= [To EAT!!] {So we have someone to talk to so we know we exist?}
Haru Harazumi: Okay. Fair point. You got me there.
Sherisumagic: and now i'm out cold again
Haru Harazumi: How many of you are there?
The Wish Tree: We are like the leaves. {many!} [ALL OF US!] As people bring more wishes, we are more. {scores!} =hordes!!= [LEGION!!!]
Haru Harazumi: But all the notes that Animates are still here in the tree? What would happen if I took some of you to a place with more paper?
The Wish Tree: More...paper? [we could MULTIPLY!] =oh please oh please oh please...= [Take US!] (We could be ALL!)
Haru Harazumi: I see. Well...maybe later then. It might be scary to have a whole library talking to me all at the same time.
Haru Harazumi: Is there anything that YOU all want to talk about?
The Wish Tree: The wind? The world? Our visions? (The visions of otherwheres?!?) [NO! DO NOT TELL!] {We're confused by them!} [TELL!]
Haru Harazumi: You have visions?
The Wish Tree: Yes we do. [NO WE DON'T!] {we do we do we do} =Who cares? We are BOUND!=
Haru Harazumi: Can you describe those places to me?
The Wish Tree: Some of them...[NO!]. We see a high place =we see for miles!= near old stone where water once ran {the fighting!} where now only pain flows. [the pain tastes like FOOD].
Haru Harazumi: Do you see anything else?
The Wish Tree: The wind {We love the wind} blows giant leaves around on a giant tree (not a tree) =must be a tree= not made by the world (ancient ancestor) {GAIA!}, but by those that live on it. [feeble frail things] {YOU!}
Haru Harazumi: Interesting. Is that all?
The Wish Tree: Yes! [many more...but DO NOT TELL!] We will tell one more. A lance of light {so bright!} stabs out over a grey pond with no shores =big, big, BIG= bellowing out at the darkness.
Haru Harazumi: Your visions sound odd, but maybe they're real places, after all. Would you like me to try and find those places?
The Wish Tree: Yes! Yes! =What if it finds something?= [The visions are OURS!] (Please find them! We must know!)
Haru Harazumi: Okay. I'll keep my eye out for places that match those descriptions. If I find them all, I'll come back and let you know. See ya...Tree.
 Wasabakeni · Mon Jun 22, 2009 @ 05:44pm · 0 Comments |
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