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otem You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley You can tell the sun in his jealous sky when we walked in fields of gold Strangely, the pain of losing her mother had already begun to fade. Instead of feeling vengeful and full of fury, Otem only felt empty and numb. What was more, the girl found she liked the feeling. After all, feeling nothing was better than carrying the weight of her grief around. And so, as she and Pandora set off to learn what they could about the various flora and fauna of their new home, something like a small smile parted the autumn-child's lips as the pair flew towards the Riptide Isles.  "I know we shouldn't just eat things. But how else will we know?" Otem muttered more or less rhetorically as she and Pandora stared down at a rather pale looking succulent. "The ones like this back home could help heal. I think they were called AAL-OH." Otem looked to her companion for confirmation, but the owl only shrugged. The pair weren't aware that what they were looking at was actually Malspira, nor had they any idea about its effects.  Otem looked around, perhaps expecting to see her twin or someone else that she was related to. She squinted her gold and burgundy eyes against the hazy atmosphere that this place always seemed to have. It was near impossible to tell if there was someone actually in the distance, or if it was just a rock or tree or something else casting a shadow. Twitching her tail uncertainly, Otem looked back towards the plant. She could eat it and find out what it did ... or she could die.  Hmmmm.

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