Tetia Lisrath Vernathil III
The bright light of the portal powering up snapped Tetia out of her slightly dazed state, with one of the human operators waving the group through. The limp was certainly better having gotten the cast off, but was certainly still present as the blinding light filled Tetia's senses, her eyes squeezing shut from the brightness, not that that lessened the blinding nature of it.
As it dimmed, the sounds of birds chattering, and the crisp crackling of... leaves? Tetia leans down and picks one up, examining it. Leaves actually come off trees? And so far from them too, the light wind that was currently whipping through everyone's hair (and Maji's horn) must have carried it from there.
A slight nudge to the arm pulls Tetia out of her own little world, with Maji smiling at her. "You not seen leaves before?" she asks jokingly.
Tetia could feel the hot flush hit her cheeks, not that the blush could be seen very well on red skin. "Y-yeah," she says with less certainty than she wanted to, "just not this kind." It had kind of gone an ochre-ish yellow, and last she'd checked, they're green.
"Well that's a oak leaf," explains Maji with her usual enthusiasm, bouncing slightly as they started to clear the portal area, eyes spinning once more, "they grow just about everywhere, but just about everything natural grows on Raza, so I suppose that's not massively descriptive."
Taking a moment to breathe in the fresh air, not ember-burnt, not artificial, but smelling of flowers and pollun, Tetia nods. Her eyes finally seemed to adjust, and the sea of green was odd to see, along with the dots of pink and yellow and white of the flora growing out of the grass. She thinks it's grass. Probably. "I've not seen this many plants before," she says quietly to herself, eyes reaching the sun and blue sky shining down on the hundreds of kinds of organisms, with elves, humans, centaurs going about their day as if there weren't deer and squirrels and pidgeons all roaming the same soil streets.
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