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[Hushed and softly husky young male voice over faint nocturnal insect noises and fainter Samhain music; swaying view of lights and shapes of buildings. The broadcaster hasn't taken their locket off - absentminded ponderation that warrants a question. Pardon the ponderation coming first.]

I wonder if there's anything I could do for the King and Queen... Uh --

Like -- the way we do things for them anyway, now and again -- not, like, for the war -- but I wonder if there's something really important someone could help 'em with in the castle, or somewhere I could go for them -- somewhere they've gotta explore, or something! Something you could do for a favor - or, uhh, not exactly a "favor" I guess, but... Something from home.

-- It probably sounds kind of terrible... -- But I was kind of just thinking about something and now I kind of want to...! [Which - distinctly trails and retraces its own tracks; he hasn't set up this questiong well at all! Cracks back in with a bit of an affected "heh...!"] Uh -- sorry...!

[Stumbles up to re-start stronger. ] It's Toboe! Um. -- I'm a wolf -- the King and Queen introduced me to this girl; she was supposed to be some kind of a nature spirit. [By now winding through airiness. Thoughtful, nosing again as he goes at introductions all-around, what he's "learning" his way around. Refocuses for the next bit.] -- A "dryad", I think that's what she was called. -- And she led me out to meet some other wolves. I, uh -- still haven't really gotten to know them, but they seem great...

[This particular injection of huskiness is genuine forward-looking excitement, but he'll try to spare the digression as much as possible for the moment...!]

Anyway...! Uh - they said they'd never heard of, or -- smelled, or seen Lunar Flowers...! So I wanted to ask the King and Queen if we could grow them here, and if it'd be possible to get some! Maybe there could be a whole field of them someday... [A vision of Paradise!] -- I know the other wolves would love 'em -- and I bet everybody else would like them, too!

Uhh... So, um -- ! Has anybody... ever asked for something like that before...? -- To earn a chance to ask for something from the Kings and Queens, when there's not one already? I-I can always wait! But I'm just wondering...

...And come to think of it! [Conversationally intent cutting-back-in!] Did they have Lunar Flowers where any of you guys came from? And the story of Paradise? Though I guess that one's less important...

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[And the cat-man's hard to forget! He bats at his locket and just-balances it on his wrist for a peek at J'sairr again, in ambivalent wonder (hoo he's never been entirely at-ease within range of a cat's eyes) and hangs over it to ensure he's in the frame as if to be sure that J'sairr does recognize him back.

He internally warms under the uncertain and not-unpleasant chill of something and someone still to-know. That may be statement of fact, sure, but it still feels like an encouragement, in a way.]

Yeah?

I guess it does seem like that, uhh - doesn't it? With magic and all... Maybe we could get a whole field of them! [Lunar Flowers are beauties as it is; that would absolutely be a sight to behold, yes!] The, uh -- the only hard part is that, I... -- guess I don't believe in the war... [Is that the right way to say it?] I dunno if it's really right to try winning their favor, or if they'd expect a whole lot after if I did...

[ Hmm. Now there's something worth mulling over. ]

This war is not the first J'sairr has been drawn into...unwillingly. This one would much rather be shot of it all than anything else, in truth. But if there is something one desires most dearly, it seems only fitting that one should do all in his power to obtain it.

[ He hesitates. ]

With a mind for safety, of course. There is no treasure or nobility in the world worth one's own life.

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