26th Trial
Ashan
Arc 721
Ashan
Arc 721
She and Doran had not long ago finished checking out the area where the beacon would go and now, they were going to draw her blood - something she was not looking forward to - and also talk through exactly which abilities she needed to be using and him to be putting on things. But, one thing had become obvious.
I'm not gettin' my greenhouse any trial soon, am I?" She smiled at Doran as they sat down together. There were high-backed benches carved from wood which she'd made. "I got my cousins to go off an' get me a whole bunch of stuff, oh, must have been twenty trials ago now. I'd planned, once we'd finished the fences, to make some greenhouses." Shrugging slightly, she grinned. "An' they brought me back lots of glass an' some really good wood, what's all silvery an' shinin'. So, I reckon, we can do it. Ok. So, I've got ideas in my head, an' I can see it. Real clear in my mind's eye." She could, there was no doubt.
"A phoenix tree can grow up to two hundred foot tall. So, I want to grow it as much as we can. An' then, around it a circlin' spiral staircase, with a covered top. Made with this gemini wood what looks metallic. It'll be wrappin' around the tree, jus' like we saw in Desnind, Arlo an' I. An' I want to have a sort of sectioned canopy, the stairs. On the canopy bits, an' on the backs of each step, there'll be places to hang lanterns." Looking at him, she considered. "Then, at the top there'll be an observatory sort of thing. The Hope's Nest. Like the crow's nest on a ship. It'll have a dome roof, an' on top of that root at the apex, there'll be the beacon." It was a big plan, Vega knew. A big plan indeed. But that didn't matter. It didn't matter at all. "It needs to shine really bright, so I've been thinkin'"
Vega rummaged and pulled out some apparently silver wood
"If we make the mirrors, usin' this silver wood, an' some of the glass, an' the glass is the stuff you said, the yellow sand? We've got that." They did indeed. "An' then, it's jus' about makin' it a beacon of hope."
There was no doubt to her that this was something she could - and should - throw herself into. She needed to, in fairness, and Vega would be the first to admit that her time here was helping. Really helping. "So, we could have a fire, or there's the Night Torch ability, which we've both got. It's well bright, an' it's beautiful. The thing is, I've got other abilities too, which work to light things up, but Night Torch it does this thing. Forgive me, I don't know how much you know about it, so I'm jus' goin' to say. As long as I'm not flingin' around abilities like a monkey flingin' nuts, then I'm able to keep it goin'. I don't know what alchemy does, as far as that's concerned, but I were wonderin' if you might be able to keep it on all the time? If not, well, could it come on at night only, or somethin'?" Ever hopeful that if she flung enough information at him something would make sense, Vega carried on. "But that one, the one I told you about what Empowered Sunsetcan heal? Well, that one is also really bright, too. There's another what's a blindin' light, but we don't want that, do we?"
"Once you've got my blood an' we know what we're doin'," she said, thoughtfully. "We can have somethin' to eat. Arlo's one of the chefs in the camp, an' he's amazin'. I want to get started on makin' steps, tonight. But Arlo said he'll set you up with a Safe Camp. It's your own space, a tent which has a warm fire an' a bed an' all the comforts of home really." Or, more than that as far as she was concerned. "What do you reckon, are we missin' anythin'?"
I'm not gettin' my greenhouse any trial soon, am I?" She smiled at Doran as they sat down together. There were high-backed benches carved from wood which she'd made. "I got my cousins to go off an' get me a whole bunch of stuff, oh, must have been twenty trials ago now. I'd planned, once we'd finished the fences, to make some greenhouses." Shrugging slightly, she grinned. "An' they brought me back lots of glass an' some really good wood, what's all silvery an' shinin'. So, I reckon, we can do it. Ok. So, I've got ideas in my head, an' I can see it. Real clear in my mind's eye." She could, there was no doubt.
"A phoenix tree can grow up to two hundred foot tall. So, I want to grow it as much as we can. An' then, around it a circlin' spiral staircase, with a covered top. Made with this gemini wood what looks metallic. It'll be wrappin' around the tree, jus' like we saw in Desnind, Arlo an' I. An' I want to have a sort of sectioned canopy, the stairs. On the canopy bits, an' on the backs of each step, there'll be places to hang lanterns." Looking at him, she considered. "Then, at the top there'll be an observatory sort of thing. The Hope's Nest. Like the crow's nest on a ship. It'll have a dome roof, an' on top of that root at the apex, there'll be the beacon." It was a big plan, Vega knew. A big plan indeed. But that didn't matter. It didn't matter at all. "It needs to shine really bright, so I've been thinkin'"
Vega rummaged and pulled out some apparently silver wood

There was no doubt to her that this was something she could - and should - throw herself into. She needed to, in fairness, and Vega would be the first to admit that her time here was helping. Really helping. "So, we could have a fire, or there's the Night Torch ability, which we've both got. It's well bright, an' it's beautiful. The thing is, I've got other abilities too, which work to light things up, but Night Torch it does this thing. Forgive me, I don't know how much you know about it, so I'm jus' goin' to say. As long as I'm not flingin' around abilities like a monkey flingin' nuts, then I'm able to keep it goin'. I don't know what alchemy does, as far as that's concerned, but I were wonderin' if you might be able to keep it on all the time? If not, well, could it come on at night only, or somethin'?" Ever hopeful that if she flung enough information at him something would make sense, Vega carried on. "But that one, the one I told you about what Empowered Sunsetcan heal? Well, that one is also really bright, too. There's another what's a blindin' light, but we don't want that, do we?"
"Once you've got my blood an' we know what we're doin'," she said, thoughtfully. "We can have somethin' to eat. Arlo's one of the chefs in the camp, an' he's amazin'. I want to get started on makin' steps, tonight. But Arlo said he'll set you up with a Safe Camp. It's your own space, a tent which has a warm fire an' a bed an' all the comforts of home really." Or, more than that as far as she was concerned. "What do you reckon, are we missin' anythin'?"