[OPEN] I walk out in the flowers and feel better~

[terraformagica]

Characters: Amalia & yours~
Setting: Floor 25 (Meadow)
Time: Any
Format: No preference
Summary: Sadida princess feels it's her responsibility to make things green again! How well she fares, that's still up for debate. Come bother her and make sure she doesn't pass out or anything from over-exerting her powers?
Warnings: Probably none.


This wasn't the first time Amalia had tentatively ventured up the staircase to the Tower's levels that had been ruined in the whale monster's attack, but she'd never ventured off the steps and onto the floors themselves.

Yet today was different and now she was standing in the torn up dirt that had once been a lush meadow. She knelt into the soil and carefully brushed some of the debris away from what might have been a clover patch before. "I'm sorry I didn't come sooner," she said quietly to the crumpled plants. "I was scared, but that's not an excuse. I still... have a lot to learn."

She pressed her hands flat into the dirt, closed her eyes and concentrated. Ripples of green light spread out from her in a circles and after a few moments, there began to be stirrings of new roots beneath the soil with a few tender green shoots tentatively raising into view. When she opened her eyes again, there was a radius of about 15 feet that was starting to grow again, like a young spring just recovering from a harsh winter. It was a long way from the lushness it had been, but now it could start growing back on its own.

Amalia looked at the rest of the ruined meadow, then down at the little patch she'd just created. She still had a lot of work to do.

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"Is that really the plan?" she asked smiling but only half-joking. "It's so Iop-ish!"

[isthatashortjoke]

Veigar blinked a few times, even tilted his head curiously at her statement.

"Of course... Wh-- What's Iop-ish?"

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"Iops are another race in my world," she said, laughing a bit. "They're known for being very headstrong."

That was probably a kinder adjective than most people would have used for them, but she was biased because of Tristepin.

"It just means that you're doing something with all bold and brash."

[isthatashortjoke]

"Aaaah, I see!" Veigar grinned wide and nodded.

"Well one cannot sit back and be idle! Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands and DO something instead of nothing! Face the fear, face the danger, face the opposition and show them you are fearless! It is you they should fear!"

And that's how you end up in the graveyard Veigar...

[terraformagica]

Amalia had been nodding along with him until he got to the last part. "Make them... fear us?" she echoed. "But wouldn't that just make them not like us?"

[isthatashortjoke]

"Well if they didn't like you in the first place, and if they're out to harm you, wouldn't you want them to fear you instead of hurt you?" That made total sense to Veigar anyways, but then again he wasn't the most sane either.

[terraformagica]

A small smile appears on her face. "I understand what you're saying," she admitted. "In battle we want opponents to fear us. But I don't think this is like that, that's all."

[isthatashortjoke]

"You don't believe we're battling them? I don't think we're quite in the guest status." he said in concern.

"I certainly wouldn't want to wait around till they do something to hurt you. Err to hurt us, us! Blasted I should get to my lab and finish my work anyways!"

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"Your... lab?"

Amalia really wasn't sure how she felt about discussing the Tower owners like they were enemies, so she wanted to move the conversation into something else.

"May I see it?"

[isthatashortjoke]

"I'm not stopping you," He replied with a shrug. It felt odd having someone interested in what he did. Usually everyone played him off as a mad man, or a joke.

He started walking up the stairs and began heading to the upper floors. "You're an odd woman Amalia... in a, pleasant manner."

[terraformagica]

She falls into step behind him, playing absently with the large flower in her hair. "You sound surprised," she teased.

[isthatashortjoke]

"I am." he stated simply as he walked.

"Trust is not something I do often... Most beings aren't deserving of it, at least not in my life... You just... seem so different."

[terraformagica]

"Do you really not know very many good people, Veigar? What about your friends?"

She seemed a bit disheartened to think that he didn't have many people he could trust, but it certainly helped explain why he was so rough around the edges.

[isthatashortjoke]

Veigar scoffed, "Friends? I don't have them, or need them!"

He slowed his pace however, his gaze looking a bit down for a few moments before continuing. "I had teammates... yes. Comrades in combat even... But this concept of friends..."

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"I didn't have a lot of friends growing up," Amalia said softly. "I had Evangelyne, and even though she was supposed to be my bodyguard she was my best friend. But everyone else... they didn't really see me. They saw my title and..."

She sighed a little. "And I was all right with that, because I didn't known any better. But then I made more friends -- real ones who saw me for me."

[isthatashortjoke]

"How could they not see you? That... does not make sense! You're you! You're there! Were they blind? Or maybe... maybe they were much taller than you!"

No Veigar, she doesn't have similar issues as you do...

"Then they knew not what they were missing then."

[terraformagica]

His comment causes her to giggle. "Yes, most of them were taller than me but that wasn't what I meant. You have an impressive title too, right? Do you ever think that people don't know you as a person because of it?"

[isthatashortjoke]

Veigar thinks for a few moments before looking back with a wicked grin, "This is true, but that is made up for by the mistakes they make not seeing me while we're in combat then. It's a mistake they won't be making again I suppose."

[terraformagica]

"You've got such a one-track mind," Amalia laughed. "But I think it'll be my turn to be surprised once I see your lab."

[isthatashortjoke]

"I have a great mind!" Veigar said boisterously, completely missing the point!

Once they arrived to the location, what she found might not be what she thought she'd find. The lab itself had many of the things you'd find in a lab, chemistry sets, assorted machines, odd contraptions... but there were also very random items that somehow didn't make sense as to why they'd be there.

Balloons, toys, plants, lots of doodles and drawings that had 'SUPREME FAIL PROOF PLAN' written on most of them, there were even a few inventions that seemed like they'd be more fun or pleasant to play with than do any harm...

But there was also no lack of those either, they just didn't stand out so much compared to the odd things that made up the majority of the items.

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"Oh Veigar..." Amalia breathed, her eyes going very wide. "It's... it's extraordinary."

She moved slowly past him, taking her time to stare at everything. She is careful not to touch, but it's pretty clear she's awestruck by the lab.

[isthatashortjoke]

Veigar grinned extremely proud of himself and moved to walk besides her.

"Isn't it? Hee hee hee~ I am glad you can see it. I don't bring many people here... They don't deserve it. You however... There's just something about you." He left it at that and looked over his lab with pride.

[terraformagica]

"What do you use all of these things for?" she wondered aloud. "They look so complicated... but then, much of what I've seen here in the Tower seems complicated to me. Do your machines help people?"

She blushed a little when he said that she deserved to see the lab.

[isthatashortjoke]

"Hmmmm...." Veigar mused to himself aloud, tapping at his chin as he walked around.

"They can help people, yes." That didn't mean that they were their purpose.

"I used them to find ways to better eliminate our enemies, the monsters of this place. Or simply to make things more comfortable."

[terraformagica]

"Not more talk about enemies," Amalia said, giving him a sidelong glance. "But what do you mean by more comfortable?"