The Magic of Plants, Wednesday, Per 3

[glacial_queen]

Karla might live in Glacia, but she still kept tabs on Earth. So she was more than a little aggravated with politics when she arrived in Fandom for class today. They were playing dangerous games and they weren't even playing them well and that just offended Karla right down to her bones. She was half-tempted to March to DC after class was over and show them what a real ruler looked like.

"So, everything is kind of terrible today," Karla declared. "And while it was tempting to show you all how to make alcohol out of plants, I'm supposed to be some kind of role model or something. So instead, we're going to watch a very serious movie about how useful plants can be and why you should take care of them."

While snacking on roasted piñas, or agave hearts, that just happened to come with an explanation of how to make mezcal, on the off-chance that was helpful to anybody.

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Re: Talk to Karla

[glacial_queen]

"Agave," Karla repeated, giving Shiemi a warm smile, and glancing towards her hair to see if she could glimpse Nii-chan. "A plant native to Mexico. What about it?"

Re: Talk to Karla

[greenexorcist]

"Agave?" Shiemi tried to repeat that. Did she get it right?

"Ano. Is this the same as a Century plant? I... I've only seen drawings, but it looks similar."

And Nii-chan? He wasn't in her hair. "Eh! Nii-chan?!" At least not anymore. He was in the air jumping for the teacher. Hopefully it was okay?

Re: Talk to Karla

[glacial_queen]

"It is," Karla said, giving Shiemi a pleased smile. "It's--oof! Hello, Nii-chan." Fortunately, Karla was used to things launching at her face. She had children with wings. "Glad to see you, too."

Re: Talk to Karla

[greenexorcist]

Then Sensei would most definitely have experience listening to a child's excited babbling conversation style! Though probably she was not used to it coming from a demon plant creature.

"Nii! NiiIII nii. Niiiii nii, nii nii..."

Nii-chan was communicating rapidly to the 'big sister', gleefully bouncing as if she was Shiemi. Since he was a baby greenman as well as a demon, though, any possible telepathic understanding was likely coming across more more as impressions and concepts than actual words, but it was all about how interesting the movie was and about a book that Shiemi had found with all the fun plant stories and their last exorcist adventure with the house spirits that had become evil and tried to eat the student renting the house and how he'd learned a new whip technique and and...

Her question momentarily forgotten, Shiemi was tilting her head and smiling like she was a mom about to burst with happiness and pride. "He really likes you. He's friendly and I've seen him tease people, but he usually only treats me like this."

Re: Talk to Karla

[glacial_queen]

"Is that so?" Karla asked, running her finger along the crown of Nii-chan's head-leaf (she wasn't sure whether it was a hat or an actual physical protrusion). "I wonder if it's because he can sense I'm a Queen." She gave Shiemi a smile. "It's more than a statement of political power back home. Queens are witches born with the power to do a very specific subset of Craft."