26th Ashan, 721
Hope Point.
That was the name of the place where they were going to put the beacon for Xiur. Vega had so many ideas for it, so many thoughts in her head about it. She was more than excited to speak to Sir Chip, she was positively buzzing with it. She'd sent a message with her cousin, asking Sir Chip if he'd come here and, while she was waiting for either her cousin to come back and say he couldn't find Sir Chip, or for her tunawa friend to arrive. It was Reese who found Sir Chip and he was polite, formal, and he spoke about gardening. Specifically asking questions about the many resources Vega had demanded and how to best grow them and use them and so on. He was a expertwell-informed and skilled gardener, but he was happy to get some level of consultation, of discussion. So, he chatted.
However, when they arrived, Vega turned and smiled. She was doing that more, she thought, just lately. Smiling. Was it the pregnancy? Was the baby growing inside her causing her all these emotions? Vega thought maybe. But also - there was a simple truth; she was happy here. Happy and she felt useful. It was a world away from Storm's Edge where she had not - not once - felt useful. It was like fighting a tidal wave by standing on the shore and shouting.
"Sir Chip!" Vega said. "I'm righ' sorry to bother you, but Xiur jus' came to visit me an' Doran, an'," she went into a full explanation then of what had happened and what Xiur had asked. "An' I've got some ideas." She tried, then, to describe the beacon she was visualising.
"An' I've been thinkin' that maybe we could make that central tree is a phoenix tree, Sir Chip," Vega said. "I've got seeds an' stuff, an' I was wonderin' if you might be able to grow the tree here, but like, all the way?" Vega looked at him and smiled. "If we can do this, it's goin' to be a miracle, Sir Chip, an' I figure that to make a miracle, it's got to be all of us pullin' together."
To her mind, that was basic and clear. If they all worked together then they could do this. It would work, she was sure of it. "Because I reckon this spot here is the right place." She looked at Kisaik with an expression of mixed worry and hope. "What do you reckon, Sir Chip? Do you think we can do i?"
Vega was never prone to caring about other people but Sir Chip was her friend and, as such, he was one of those rare people who mattered to her. So, she wanted to know if he could and would help. Because it needed everyone and his role was pivotal.
That was the name of the place where they were going to put the beacon for Xiur. Vega had so many ideas for it, so many thoughts in her head about it. She was more than excited to speak to Sir Chip, she was positively buzzing with it. She'd sent a message with her cousin, asking Sir Chip if he'd come here and, while she was waiting for either her cousin to come back and say he couldn't find Sir Chip, or for her tunawa friend to arrive. It was Reese who found Sir Chip and he was polite, formal, and he spoke about gardening. Specifically asking questions about the many resources Vega had demanded and how to best grow them and use them and so on. He was a expertwell-informed and skilled gardener, but he was happy to get some level of consultation, of discussion. So, he chatted.
However, when they arrived, Vega turned and smiled. She was doing that more, she thought, just lately. Smiling. Was it the pregnancy? Was the baby growing inside her causing her all these emotions? Vega thought maybe. But also - there was a simple truth; she was happy here. Happy and she felt useful. It was a world away from Storm's Edge where she had not - not once - felt useful. It was like fighting a tidal wave by standing on the shore and shouting.
"Sir Chip!" Vega said. "I'm righ' sorry to bother you, but Xiur jus' came to visit me an' Doran, an'," she went into a full explanation then of what had happened and what Xiur had asked. "An' I've got some ideas." She tried, then, to describe the beacon she was visualising.
"An' I've been thinkin' that maybe we could make that central tree is a phoenix tree, Sir Chip," Vega said. "I've got seeds an' stuff, an' I was wonderin' if you might be able to grow the tree here, but like, all the way?" Vega looked at him and smiled. "If we can do this, it's goin' to be a miracle, Sir Chip, an' I figure that to make a miracle, it's got to be all of us pullin' together."
To her mind, that was basic and clear. If they all worked together then they could do this. It would work, she was sure of it. "Because I reckon this spot here is the right place." She looked at Kisaik with an expression of mixed worry and hope. "What do you reckon, Sir Chip? Do you think we can do i?"
Vega was never prone to caring about other people but Sir Chip was her friend and, as such, he was one of those rare people who mattered to her. So, she wanted to know if he could and would help. Because it needed everyone and his role was pivotal.