and the fire grows brighter

Element · 11-23-2010, 08:59 PM

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Element looked at the clouds and began to wonder once again about humans. How great were they really? How far have they created? He read that at one point, they'd even traveled to the moon. Have they created a way for animals to go to the moon, too? A way to speak to them? Have they created a sort of mithridate that could cure any illness? How great were they really?

Suddenly, however, Element was snapped out of his thoughts by a soft voice that called out from behind him. Rolling over on his belly, he sat up, his head poking out from the top of the tall grass. There was a white and dark brown canine that he guessed was also part cat, given her coloration - and she was calling to him. Or, at least, she was calling to some cat in the general vicinity - 'here, kitty, kitty,' she called, and Element wrapped his tail around his forelegs.

"Hello," he said politely. He had long since realized that rudeness was not the way to go when one assumed you could not speak their language, and had resorted to simply greeting them ever since. It seemed to work almost always, and never did they continue to treat him as such. He supposed it was just the difference of species that was so shocking at first - when he was only fluent in the High Speech, it had too astounded him that there were other languages he could learn. When he was a kitten, he thought there was only one language - the High Speech - and the rest of the giant squid simply made strange noises that weren't a language at all. How he'd learned since then, although he never made to learn the language of his giant squid - his food talking to him would be too much for the cat.

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