<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/DhfOlCG.jpg)</div><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Rin</span></strong>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337368.msg16018996#msg16018996)<br/><strong>Time:</strong><em>Year 1, Time of Open Paths</em><br/><strong>Tags:</strong><em>Open, ask if interested</em><br/><strong>Actions:</strong><em>Making new friends</em><br/><br/>Rin had pondered all of these things that New Friend had stated with all the seriousness and attention they deserved, then had spotted something interested and hovered over to check. It was a plant...but was it a plant? It kept opening and closing it's leaves as Rin got close. Was it trying to talk? It looked interesting, all the little spiny things at the tips of the mouth. She watched it, though no sound came out. So she tried to communicate like it did. She opened and closed her mouth slowly, and furrowed her brow. She still couldn't understand it.<br/><br/>Changing tactics, she turned to her side so she was orientated the same as the plant and opened and closed her mouth again. It still wouldn't talk to her. It was being a very quiet plant. Humming, she turned her heat down a little and it stopped moving. So it wanted her warmth...she pondered this odd dichotomy when a little insect landed in between the petals. She watched the plant's mouth close on it and stay closed. "You just wanted to hug someone!" she smiled and bopped away, happy to have sorted out this botanical quandary.<br/><br/>Floating about a little she poked and peeked and generally explored a bit, but then she remembered something. She'd been so intrigued by New Friend she'd momentarily forgotten old friend. New Friend said they were leaving soon. Hovering over to the Wise Old Elephant, she remembered to turn her heat down and nuzzled up against the side of one massive ear "Will miss Friend..."