nature – Page 4 – Jordyn Saelor

Saviors

The army got its start as a branch of the police; they trained for years just to parade through

Restore/Reorder

I’ve figured me out: I do something stupid or nasty then I feel bad. Then I punish myself. Like, I exiled you. Now I write letters to you

Rerun

I didn’t give into my baser instincts and turn the trees into people—for fifty years, at least, I kept wandering and writing you

Equality

I filled Brisbane with a bunch of trees. Just, transported the whole forest one set of roots at a time. And I didn’t give into my baser instincts and turn them all into people

Of the six trees-to-humans, none of them looked the same age. One had gray hair and wrinkled skin a lot like bark. One looked only a few years old, with chubby cheeks and a protruding belly. One looked like both,

But Don’t Worry/Entropic

I imbued the trees with normatropism even though it took several years with Earth’s scarce magic to work out the summoning rings to make brains out of tree sap

camp/All Common Sense, That is

To shapeshift, beginner witches require a diagram–and by diagram I mean, pages of drawings about what to do with all your organs and pages more about how to make new organs and

Tropic

Plants grow down toward gravity, and experts call that geotropic. Plants grow toward water and they call that hydrotropic. In a pre-witch life, I dabbled in botany and read some books and grew a little

13- the tyrant

I wandered the Realm of Green Dragons for seasons, hunted skins for tents and sandals, took a few emerald scales from a sleeping dragon’s swampy cave

Read & die

Gather 2 wolfhead mushrooms. Gather 3 green pinecones. Gather a pinch of fern spores, 7 lichen-dusted pebbles, and moss water to stir everything

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