Crystal Children

there are no markings on her country roads no signs that show the way back home Me too! Relief washes over Otem. She's from Helovia. She's nice. The filly stops her mind before it continues onto thouhts such as maybe we could be friends, because the grief of losing her mother so recently prevents her from considering having any other real attachments or relationships, but the fact that Maude is here is more than good enough for the time being. The horned girl introduces herself as a gardener, and at this, Otem is immediately hooked. "Me too!" She immediately lies. It wasn't a big lie. She would have been a gardener (did the Throat even have that rank? She couldn't remember. But .. her Father was the Sultan, so she was pretty sure she could be whatever she had wanted to). "See?" She continued, feeling the need to justify her lie so the girl wouldn't ask anymore questions. A bluish sprout of ivy suddenly burst forward from the ground. It twisted slightly, appeared to stutter, and then shrivelled onto the ground. Otem frowned, her lips tilting sideways in a comical : / motion. "Hmm." She hmm'd, then sighed. "I'm Otem." The filly added after a moment of continuing to scrutinize her failed display of magic. At least she hadn't said she had been a particularly good gardener.

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