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somatichybrid ([personal profile] somatichybrid) wrote in [community profile] nomans_land 2023-08-19 06:54 pm (UTC)

He can't help but laugh. "You're really young yet. I was--" Eight. A hundred and forty-eight. His fingers twitch. "A lot older before I could do much that might look impressive, but I was working it out on my own. With all these siblings around you might manage a lot sooner. Even one little feather might not be much to you, but remember, you made it out of nothing at all except the desire to have a feather." It's still pretty impressive, over here violating physics casually.

Hopefully it won't end in more holes in the moons. Or in the planet. In theory it should never be an issue, except..

"..Well, actually. You do have to worry a little bit. See, people who know how to make a plant do things can force you to do those things even if you don't want to." This is pretty somber, there's no laugh or chuckle. This .. little Nai was unlikely to try surrounded by everyone, but he himself had done it before, and there were surely Knives..es.. about. Stupid ones that didn't know as much as they thought they did. "Usually I'd say it's just humans, all the plant techs who know the mysteries of us better than we do. But we plants are a lot like humans, and ... eventually, a bad one might come along, the odds will catch up eventually. And if they know how to force plants to do things, then they could try to make you do whatever they want."

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