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[lumberlady]

please excuse text.

i have question.

about egg children from before. some number of other people were having also, yes?

possible other people is happy because of feeling relief for no breeding or possible we become used to crazy happening in LUNATIA and so now there be no more shock... and no more need for question? i no know.

but i want know. people having more education and mind than i have answer? people who know magic? doctor things?

was flower child ever real child?

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[greenbriar]

[ Coming from a society that values children very much-- ]

It seems to me like it was a cruel prank.

[lumberlady]

[herd instincts strong... sad high five...]

until now LUNATIA does many thing that are no comfortable or no happy.

but this time... is too cruel. i no understand why. why this happen?

[greenbriar]

I do not think they understand what it is they impose on us.

[ He's trying to think of something comforting to say, but...

In the end you either care or you don't. And if you do, what is there to say that isn't an empty platitude? ]

It was unjust.

I am sorry for your pain.

[lumberlady]

i can bear many things. attack and flood and mind change and moons.

this time... is difficult.

... is you feeling also? egg pain.

[greenbriar]

I was spared the farce of "fathering" any.

But children are rare and precious to my kind. I would have been hopeful, if I thought I was to have one. Even in this circumstance.

[lumberlady]

now know is good thing. ... i try to find good thing. could confirm husband 's midwife skill. now can be at ease for give birth in mountain home.

what is you 's race? is not human?

[greenbriar]

You are here with your husband?

I am fey. Some of us bear a resemblance to humans, but only in looks.

[lumberlady]

yes. is most fortunate and lucky to be so.

i apologize, i no know what is FEY. how is different from human?

[greenbriar]

If I may ask, then: did you arrive together?

[ ...as for her question: he types and retypes his answer several times, because it is difficult to explain unpompously in simple terms. Finally, frustration forces him to switch to voice. ]

--forgive me, but I think this will be easier.

There are many types of fey, but all have certain similarities: we are long-lived, capable of wielding magic, and connected to nature in a way most humans are not.

[lumberlady]

no we no arrive together. i go to other place almost one year then LUNATIA... and one or two month after husband appear here.

please forgive if question is rude but is FEY like ELF? is sounding similar to what i hear before?

[greenbriar]

--ah. [ His sharp little intake of breath is caught on audio, before he switches off the feed in favour of typing. ]

I am glad to hear that you were reunited, then. [ For her sake, certainly, but mostly for assorted selfish, hopeful reasons. ]

Yes. And elf is fey in the same way an apple is a fruit; but like there are other kinds of fruit, so there are many kinds of fey.

Do you happen to know many elves, here?

[lumberlady]

[“Ah”...

Her low level of literacy prevents her words from coming across via text quite like she intends then, but. For this topic, she tries even harder.]

yes. i am only jinba for so much long time before... so to meet other jinba, but also be able to meet jinba i know, but also be able to meet jinba i love—

is beyond good fortune i feel. is precious.

i think i understand about FEY and ELF now.

i no know many but i know small number, in place before and now here. has sharp ear and long life and good spirit with nature, i see and hear.

you is ELF? or other FEY?

[greenbriar]

Extraordinarily so.

I did not... imagine it was possible, for the people we love to join us here. Being proven wrong is a gift I will not soon forget.

[ The fey do not express gratitude directly; it cheapens the unnecessarily complex exchange of favours on which fey society is anchored. But--

But he is definitely grateful.

Also, "sharp ear" makes him smile. ]

...I am indeed elven. Sharp ears and all.

Is "Jinba" the name of your people?

[[ ooc: this is also hilarious timing because immediately after this conversation his wife arrives in Lunatia :') ]]

[lumberlady]

if is having love... i am hoping for you to reunion with them, in LUNATIA or most hope in you ‘s world.

[does this mean she jinxed him?? a good jinx!! plz introduce she has so few married friends what’s up with all these single people in Lunatia (besides the obvious)!]

i feel relief to be correct! is many thing i still do not know...

yes. people is called jinba, two type, in mountain and field blood. i ‘s name is KONOHA. mountain jinba.

[greenbriar]

[ an excellent jinx, and he will absolutely consider himself in her debt for it :D ]

I am Cardan. It is a pleasure.

How do a mountain jinba and a field jinba differ?

[ ...it's possible that he's trying to figure out whether she's... human... or something else entirely. ]

[lumberlady]

[greatmoon groves non-human double date???]

is honor for meeting, even if is not seeing.

mountain jinba is more strong than field jinba, field jinba is more fast... is most easy way to say. also coat is more thick than field, and legs is thicker. more stamina, but body is not as graceful?

like this.

[greenbriar]

[ absolutely ]

Ah. You are also not human, then?

[lumberlady]

no, is jinba. is i 's writing ability problem?

or

you no know what is jinba is problem?

[greenbriar]

[ He will frown at the message for a minute, feeling weirdly defensive about not knowing the thing he doesn't have any reason to know. ]

The latter.

[ ...and then he immediately regrets being curt. ]

I do not know what jinba is, I mean.

[lumberlady]

i see.

you need PHOTOGRAPH?

or possible you know CENTAUR? many people in LUNATIA see i and call i CENTAUR so must look same.

[greenbriar]

I am familiar with centaurs.

[ ...though there do not seem to be that many in Lunatia. Hm... ]

Are you, by chance, in the business of farming?

[lumberlady]

then maybe is fine to think of i as CENTAUR.

yes! you hear of farm? or maybe see at market?

[greenbriar]

At market, yes. The one with the screaming produce. I talked to a woman, but only briefly; I imagine that may have been you?

[ The centaurs he knows are... also fey. He remembers being surprised by her rounded ears, that day at market, but now it makes a little more sense. ]

[lumberlady]

surprise! yes, only mare jinba in LUNATIA is i, so must be i!

thank you for patronage!

and to speak again!

[greenbriar]

I am pleased to have had the chance.