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Started February 23, 2018 by @_sleeby_rat_

tune

Mike shaded his eyes and stared out at the plain. "Sure doesn't look like it."
Kaiser kept walking. "Looks can be deceiving. We just traveled through a hundred miles of forest in only an hour, and this terrain will be no different. Only the path makes this possible. Many years ago, when there was no path, almost no one dared to travel through Teppa. It was Lord Zhan who convinced Urth to make a safe passage through the realm, and that took a lot of doing. Urth is not the most cooperative god."

"Sounds like Samandriel before he grew up. He used to be as snobby and rich as they come. Now he's just grumpy," Pluto chuckled

"What about that girl, the one the watchdog was guarding?" Mike asked. "Was she a Metsanpeitto victim?"
"No, that was Brooklyn. She is going to marry Urth, when she is old enough."
Mike frowned. "Wait, what?"
"It may seem strange to you. But she was born different from other humans. She will not go mad in Urth's presence, and already she loves him very much. There have been others like her before, and some say that they are all reincarnations of the same spirit that fell in love with Urth at the beginning of time. Their half-god children are the guardians of the Earthly plants and animals."

"Man. Reminds me of the paeans. Lots of them would do stuff like that. Ostaros was famous for building body after body for the same girl he fell in love with millions of years ago so she would stay with him forever."

"Hm." Mike seemed unsure what to think of this information. "Well, at least he's faithful, I guess." He sighed. "The more I hang out with you guys, the more I feel like like an uneducated backwoods savage. My sphere of knowledge doesn't contain anything like this."
"You are a backwoods savage," Kaiser said casually. "But that's only to be expected. The rest of us have lived much longer and seen much more than you by a great deal."
"Thanks for rubbing it in."

Pluto chuckled. "Don't feel too bad. You're just like the majority of the multiverse's inhabitants."

"I figured. It's not like I've ever needed to know any of this before, anyway." Mike glanced up at the sky. "Oops, buzzards are circling. We'd better pick up the pace."
Sure enough, several of the large birds were wheeling overhead, watching the group carefully.

"Don't they only follow dying things?" Pluto asked. "I have barely any experience with birds, but that doesn't look right."

"For once, I can't tell you," Kaiser said, shrugging. "Mike?"
Mike glanced up at the birds again. "They circle if they think you're going to die. Way up there, they can see the land much better than we can. They might know something we don't. Maybe there's no food or water for miles, and they think we'll starve. Or maybe…." He slowed down, looking ahead. "…there might be some danger coming up that we can't see."
(I gotta go to class now, seeya later)

Pluto frowned. "Wait. I can fly now. Maybe I could see if there's anything up there?"

"You can try, but don't get too close to the birds, and stay right above the path if you can. Be careful."