<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/nKSivzs.jpeg)</div><strong>Aqua (Any)</strong>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337368.msg16018804#msg16018804)<br/><strong>Time:</strong><em>Year 1, Time Time to Gather</em><br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Reaper, Wish<br/><strong>Actions:</strong>Picking Wisdom<br/><hr/><br/>While Aqua had spent some time playing with Wish, her conversation with the Reaper still laid heavily on her, even as she was called back and away. And when she returned to the island, it was different. Or, prehaps more truly, she was different. She still saw the joy, here, there, everywhere, but now, it was more layered, more complex. Tainted... No, spiced with all these other strange ideas. Ideas of change, that the form of every happiness was fleeting. All changed. Loss, renewal, birth, growth, decline.... And more.<br/><br/>Aqua still appreciated beauty, of course, but he could see now that there could be beauty everywhere, even in starkness, like the refreshing sourness of a lemon which, in turn, made the sugary fruit all the sweeter. And he had never been one to take on dignified airs. Fortune would come and go and leave, he was certain, its own taste behind, but to hold to to longevity amongst all that change trying to hold on too long seemed... unwise, like the Wise Old Elephant, who accepted her time.<br/><br/>Yes, Wisdom. For all that Aqua was filled with love as well, more than that, she was curious. She wanted to know. To learn more of this place, of this world, of herself. This she decided, was the path she would put herself on. It was a secret, quiet decision, but, somehow, it felt momentous all the same. As much, or perhaps more, than when she had chosen her orb element.