Samuel
Latis didn't like that pageant she went to... Nothing to punch without looking like some aggressor... Like really can't she spar with anything there? She didn't really realize her strength though, often trying to pick fights with the other Dolls and Shadows, neither really liked it though, but she'd only ever cracked their bodied a bit. She never, never went for their cores... That is simply not right to go for one's core. Though would it really, some Dolls can deflect her blows... And Shadows can easily dodge... But wouldn't it make mother unhappy... Ugh it would wouldn't it... And SAGE to, she'd probably have to join the Hoomens to find some community, they like hunting more than fighting though... UGH 

She really... Really need to punch SOMETHING, but should she really punch grandmother... She can handle that... Right? Isn't she like much stronger than even SAGE... She should be

Latis decide to punch Gaia, though it made no dent in her bark, in which Latis got a bit more frustrated and punched her bark more...
Manuel
"Ha, having an edgy day?" A voice spoke from behind her. The source of the voice was a tiny little hornet, looking so frail that it seemed like it would definitely cripple under one punch from her. Despite that, though, it hovered in the air behind her looking curious as Latis assaulted the Mother Gaia. Even as she predictably did nothing to the Creator God, the strawberry coloured insect began to giggle. It buzzed around her, landing on the tree bark and looking up at the Doll. Its movements were somehow curious, conveying its interest in this newcomer. It was honestly kind of impressive that it could even convey such emotions given its wasp's body.

A tiny golden stinger gleamed at the end of its abdomen, as it jumped off of the tree and began to flutter around her. "Thanks for not instantly swatting me, by the way. Lots of people try when they see me." She laughed.
Samuel
"EEP!" Latis yelped, she didn't seem to know she was maybe followed?? W-was she? Wait an insect? But off their realm? This must surly be a powerful one! But... It didn't seem to be capable of much 'moves' with how big she was? The size difference didn't fit well if she'd want to box her like a Shadow from the fighting club they kinda made(she yelled at them to make it though... So was it really their's?) 

Well... It did seem to have a potent stinger thing? "Ahm-" She coughed into her fist. "Would thou be up for a spar?" She requested, probably a bit importune with how they just kinda appeared. But maybe they'd be up for it?
Manuel
"What? A fight?" The insect let out a buzz. "No way, look at you! Now look at me!" It gestured down at itself. "I'm like, tiny!" In truth, the Strawberry Maiden really like to avoid fighting whenever possible. Not because it was bad, but because it was boring and usually ended up either hurting her on the outside or on the inside when people got really sad about being unable to hurt her. She preferred not to engage in violence unless she had an actual reason to.
Samuel
Latis wanted to pout but she did have a point... Really big difference on their size. Well Latis could get a much smaller body, but she'd still be much bigger than the insect, and it would take days to design it aaaaaeee. "Ughhh, sorry just really need to punch something~ that big pageant thing was much too crowded," She almost sang. Latis seemed quite tense.
Manuel
"I mean, you were punching the Tree pretty well already." The fly pointed out, "I don't think it's hurting her, though. Maybe you should try punching harder?" She suggested unhelpfully as she buzzed around the titan's head. With the Divine Weapon that her mother had granted her as a gift, she wasn't too worried even if Latis started attacking her, and so she remained relatively playful at the misfortune of the Doll - if you could even call it that.
Samuel
"A~ noo ain't no way I'ma be punching grandmother *Hard*," She said with a hair toss. She really didn't want to anger mother and grandmother... 

Wait why hasn't grandmother talked? "Um... Does grandmother not speak or something? Or... Am I on the naughty list..." She asked looking a bit down. Even with her wanted to punch things from time to time, she still was a Doll, and Dolls are rather social. She didn't want to be a 'lone wolf'.
Manuel
"How would I know? I'm just a bug." The hornet pointed out, landing on the bark of the World Tree. It let out a buzzing noise, as though amused by some joke that Latis wasn't in on. Or it might just be the buzzing of her wings because she was, well, a bug. "I don't know about you, but most of the trees where I come from don't talk. Maybe this one's like them?" She suggested to the Titan doll.
Samuel
"Yea but... She's grandma... She should be powerful tree and powerful things talk?" Yea, seems that way, so why can't grandmother talk... Is she angry?? She thought and gave an expression of disbelieve. Does she not like us? Even mother? Why... Why would she hate us though? "Do... Do you think grandmother hates us? Wouldn't she talk to us if she's so stronger than our mothers'?"
Manuel
"I think you're being a little dramatic." The hornet supplied. "Maybe she's just sleeping." She tapped her legs against the tree, trying to see if Gaia would respond. The Creator, of course, remained silent even as she lightly tickled the bark. "See? Sound asleep." Fragarie, like her mother, had faith in the oldest of the gods, the Mother to all the rest. Just like her own mother had granted her purpose, Gaia had given purpose to her mom.
Samuel
Latis gave a puffy look to the hornet, "But why she gotta sleep so much... Why don't she wanna be awake around us?" She really didn't get why one would sleep out on having *Any* Conversation or even just to look at them... Does grandmother have a face though? Ooo maybe she has lesser selfs that interact with us... Yeah I'ma think that not this horrible no conversation activity stuff.
Manuel
"I don't think she chooses how long she sleeps." She pointed out. "I mean, when I sleep, I just go to bed. It's not like I get to pick what time I wake up." Given by how Latis was referring to Gaia as grandmother, she could extrapolate that the Doll was not a god. Hence, her question, "But isn't your god parent enough for you?" She seemed genuinely curious. "Why does gamma need to get up and help us, anyway?"
Samuel
"Help us...? I just wanna talk to her~ like maybe she likes some of my deigns... Though maybe if she could she'd yell at me for punchin' her..." She seemed to want to retract her communication with grandmother.

"Oh but TSU's fine she's quite helpful too. She helps us avoid the dangerous parts of her place so we can make what we'd like, like bodies~." She exclaimed. "Though her Hoomens could be bad for us if the decided we were like food sources but we don't got no meat or anythin in us so idk why'd they think that" She exclaimed as she fiddled with her arms a bit, it seemed she put a light engraving on it. 

"What's your mom like?" She asked.
Manuel
"Doesn't she talk to you?" She tilted her head. "That's how we know what our purpose is, right? Gamma doesn't *Talk* Talk to us, but she communicates us by filling us with the desire to do what we're meant to." That was the way she understood Gaia's will, anyway. The desire to do anything was because Gaia had willed it to do so. Those that broke free, like Vorran's father, denied Gaia's will and seized control of their own fate, becoming monsters in the process.
Samuel
"She does that...? I thought our mothers' did... Wait did she want me to be hungry for fights like every hour... But I guess then too she wants me to create a lot~" She seemed much more thoughtful than before.
Manuel
"Maybe?" She shrugged. "I dunno, man." She jumped over to the Titan's shoulder, using her wings to carry her to heights that would have been impossible even for a locust. She settled upon the Doll's body, "I just do what I think I wanna do. And that's explore!" And guard the Valley, but that wasn't super important to mention.
Samuel
"Wait...? You *Are* Talking..." She said almost mumbling. Maybe she is strong? But she clearly didn't want to spar so I should,'t pester even if she's capable. 

Explore? Like other realms? Hmm that sounds nice... But apparently some of mother's siblings don't really like visitors... "I kinda feel inclined to 'explore' places myself... But not as much as making new sisters and brothers with the ground and a big pearl from the big clams~" She replied, flexing one of her arms. "I don't even need to use that 'kiln' thing that the others do~"
Manuel
"You're only just now realising that I'm talking?" The hornet was too small to see her expressions, but her tone was vaguely judgemental as if she were seriously reevaluating her assumptions about the Titan's mental capacities. She was glad for a topic to distract her from those thoughts, and so she seized it as well as she could. "Huh, my mom makes all my sisters. Yours makes you help her with it?" Well, she supposed that if she had been given a duty other than Guardian, there was a real chance that she might have taken a more active role in creating the Ceres... But she hadn't, so no point thinking about hypotheticals.
Samuel
"Well not really we kind of really wanted to cuz we know the Scales could but we didn't know how they did, so we just gathered stuff like SAGE does to create stuff and thought that how it was done, and eventually we got it!" She exclaimed, she seemed much effused about the topic. "I could share the details, it's not very special with the materials but the procedural does cost us a bit, but that's only a temporary cost~" She said as she looked at her fingers, they didn't seem misplaced but she seemed to look at them for a rather long time.
Manuel
"Oh no, I'll bet something like creating life needs a lot of power. I'm just the World Tree's cutest hornet." She shook her head... Or at least, it looked like it. It was kind of hard to tell on the insectile body that she had. "But it sounds like it's pretty cool for you. Besides, my mom grows my sisters out of the ground, so I don't think it would work the same way for me." Also, she didn't say, her little sisters were enough of a hassle with twenty five of them around. She really didn't need that many more.
Samuel
"Grows...? Like they expand forth for it? That's pretty cool to~ I mean we can like get into a different body but that's pretty hazardous for us if we drop ourselves... Need a partner so that doesn't happen~" Latis said, trying to explain a bit how a Doll can kinda just switch into a different body if they really wanted. Though she really did seem quite interested in others being grown into birth.
Manuel
"Like plants. Mom plants them into the ground, and then they sprout into girls instead of fruit." Well, that wasn't true, but she didn't have an easier way to explain how their mom awakened existing fruits already. This was the best way that she could think of to try and describe how her little sisters had been transformed from apples and lemons into the Ceres.
Samuel
"Ohhh like those green thing? Those are plants I think~ or mother calls them that anyway... They don't grow near our skin, the earth we use for our skin anyway," She commented, she toned it as odd as to that the plants didn't grow on certain rocks.
Manuel
"Well, that's how my mom makes my sisters." She shrugs. Well, given that her deity seemed content with what she already had, she supposed that *Made* Would be a more fitting word for the situation, but oh well. "You're made of the soil?" She buzzed curiously as she fluttered onto the Titan's arm and poked harmlessly at her skin to feel the texture.
Samuel
"Yea but it's a particular type of soil, gotta venture to the MagmaScales or CavernScales territory to get some, though they don't really mind so long as we don't take to much, or touch their jewels they dig up." Latis said thinking about it, sometimes though they didn't want them to be there, but they never really explained why...
Manuel
"Wow!" She said enthusiastically, "I didn't get that at all!" She had, surprisingly, never seen jewels before despite traipsing through the realms for quite some time. A lot of her time was spent travelling through the World Tree, like now, and so she had no idea what in Gaia's name that Latis was talking about here. Still, she did her best to appear positive and upbeat about what the Titan Doll had said.
Samuel
"Oh- I didn't at first too, not until I was guided to the place, maybe you could visit... Ashs sometime?" Latis asked, she didn't hear of TSU's story of Fragarie and Surtr yet, though all the scales have probably heard it by now, though from Vemtra.
Manuel
Fragarie had, in fact, already been to Ashs. "Maybe. I'm not sure that I'd cause too much of a splash, though." The problem, however was that nobody had actually *Told* Her the name of the realm while she'd been there, so she had no idea that she'd already been there. To her, it was as new a name as any other random realm that she'd never been to before.
Samuel
"A splash? You like water??" Latis kinda assumed, Dolls couldn't handle moisture well like at all. It cracked their bodies and they had to either majorly reinforce their bodies to dive, or just ask some AquaScales, though she could now also ask RiverScales though she didn't know of them yet. "We really don't like water, messes with our bodies, though I can handle it much, much better than the others~... Though the Shadows aren't bothered by it," She kinda huffed when talking about the shadows, seemed she have beef with them. "Also... The Hoomens... They *Bathe* In *How* Ugh... I would never! It's so... Icky..." Latis said as she ranted about water and how it's absolutely the tar of all materials.
Manuel
"Not a literal splash," She giggled, "But I *Do* Like water." She listened with interest as the Doll began to complain about water. It had never been a topic that she'd ever seen someone be super passionate about. Water was important, for sure, but she'd never seen someone that *Hated* It. Most races required it to live, after all, though she supposed that something like Latis might not be beholden by such needs. "It's a lot easier to dry these wings than it looks." She fluttered her wings, a little, though not enough to take flight again.
Samuel
"Those are wings??" I can hardly even see them! I thought those were accessories or something, they kinda made you look pretty~" Latis said, she did truly seem surprised that they were wings, though just the same her compliments seemed true.
Manuel
"No, they're wings." She hummed, "How did you think I was flying?" They began to buzz as her wings became a blur and she rose into the air. It was more tiring than a bird's, but she had a greater level of control over it in exchange. Besides, she was a demigod, meaning that her level of vitality was a lot better than that of any random mortal bird that you could pluck out of most realms.
Samuel
"I thought you just *Were* Kinda like that mother's sibling just *Can*..." Latis said sounding a but embarrassed, though not really looking embarrassed... Her face doesn't really move though, only her jar and eyes...
Manuel
"You mean... An aunt?" She drawled, mildly amused by the odd terminology. It was one of the more important words that she'd been taught how to say in all languages, largely because the people that she would be calling aunt would be one of the few beings in the realms that posed a danger to her. With Ver Aura at her side, even titans and other demigods didn't stand much of a chance, but gods still outmatched her, even if just barely.
Samuel
"Hmm? Mother only ever referred to them as siblings..." Latis said... She didn't really have all that much creativity, almost as little as her mother. TSU didn't really think her creations would be attacked by her siblings, though maybe she'll learn, or Latis will, in time.
Manuel
"Well, they're your *Mom's* Siblings." She hummed, "But they're not really yours? Since you're the child of a god, wouldn't they be more your aunts and uncles than siblings?" It wasn't something that she'd had to explain very often, but she figured that there was no harm in trying to get the doll to understand a little better.
Samuel
"I guess that's true..." Latis replied, she'd ask mother though before using it because mother is always right, right? She doubted the word a bit as mother never used it... But she seemed to be telling the truth~
Manuel
"Yeah!" She cheered, encouraged by the agreement of the Doll. "See? So, the other gods from your mom would be your aunts and uncles and... Hey, I actually don't think there's a words for mom's siblings that aren't either aunts or uncles." She hummed, trying her best to think of a word.
Samuel
"Mom'd probably want me check her before I use that though... Or at least that's what SAGE says to do... Or maybe it's to ask her instead...?" Latis said, though her voice going almost quite as she continued the sentence.
Manuel
"Well, I dunno your mom, so I can't really say." She pointed out, though she did recognise the name SAGE. Hum, she couldn't quite recall exactly *Where* She'd heard of it, but it was one of those nagging things on the tip of her tongue. Still, she didn't remember an uncle or auntie SAGE anywhere, so she figured it might just be some sense of deja vu.
Samuel
Latis nodded, not really knowing how to further comment, though she seemed quite found of the insect despite usually only feeling found of another after she's sparred with them. "This conversation was... Quite pleasing~ maybe we shall meet again sometime? I don't want to leave my siblings for long, so I'll head back to my place~" Latis said as she started to walk down to the roots of Gaia.
Manuel
"We'll see." The hornet hummed, "Why don't you point me towards your mom's realm, and I'll try and pay it a visit sometime?" Fragarie fluttered around the Titan Doll in rapid circles, a small wind generating in her wake. It wasn't a lot, but it helped her fly and made her seem all the more whimsical. That was nice, she liked being whimsical.
Samuel
"Ah it'a that one other there~" She replied as she walked. Ashs from here just looked orange, no land at all could be seen from just how thick the air was, although some of the  and it's area could be seen a bit better than the rest
Manuel
"Oh." She swivelled her head towards it, before, "Oh, I've actualy been there before! You're one of SAGE's friends?" She buzzed cheerfully. "Well, I'll be sure to pay a visit some-" She paused midspeech, then, "After I do something urgent. I need to go." A hint of urgency was in her voice now as she fluttered in midair.
Samuel
"Ohh? Did you get inside her lab? She never leaves that place like ever..." Latis said as she began to crouch

Yea I'm in range to where I landed before, just gotta land in the snow I think~ 

Latis decided to leap back in strides to get to Ashs a bit quicker cause it didn't seem too close to walk to... Like at all
Manuel
"Oh, no. She was outside." She shook her head. As the Titan began to leap, she fluttered away. She may be a demigod with a divine weapon, but she still didn't want to crash into something like that, even as an accident. As the Titan soared off, she fluttered away to continue exploring the Tree as she'd been doing before. She'd try and remember that odd girl.