The Garden of Live Flowers [Social]

Menat was still attempting to come to terms with the more foreign aspects of her new biology. Since she had returned home with her new Spriggan form she had taken notice of the changes to her. For one she was no longer able to taste her mother's cooking as she once could. The food itself had even become less filling. Instead she had come to the realization that she now needed to take in her nutrients as a typical plant would. She was grateful her mother had made a point of adding a garden to the palace during its construction as it proved to be one of, if not, the best spots for the young King Candidate to literally plant her roots. The sun always hit just ever so perfectly in the palace garden when it came time for Menat to feed.

A peaceful sign was quickly turned into a ting of annoyance as she could hear the giggles of another as the frolicked through the violets, clearly indicated as the individual made a note of exclaiming how the violets were pretty among other describing factors. There had been additional comments made of being able to see or smell as well as being a real girl. These clues were more than enough for Menat to know just exactly who had intruded on her peaceful meal. It was Alice, her sister's living doll. Or she would suppose golem? After all that was, in a sense, what a golem was. She actually had yet to fully understand just what exactly Alice actually was now that she was no longer a simply toy her sister carried around.

With a sigh Menat found her mind drifting to a single thought. 'I need to get mom's builders to build me my own garden in my wing.' However, like with all her siblings, she would play nice with Alice all the same. She meant a lot to Mirna after all. Oddly enough, as she listened to the former toy, it seemed Alice had come looking for Menat herself this time. Calling for the eldest princess she wondered if she were among the violets or if she were simply talking to herself. Yet with her feet literally rooted to the ground she was currently immobile. "I'm here Alice, but I'm not in the violets. I'm having a meal in one of the small clearings so I can't make my way towards you I'm afraid." She would call out to the somewhat ditzy girl. Solomon's sake it was weird to eat through your feet.

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Yup. She was gonna need a private garden with a girl like Alice around for sure. The eldest of Merrze's children had been of an open mind and was constantly trying to give others the benefit of the doubt but when someone was as sickeningly sweet twenty four-seven like Alice constantly appeared to be it was hard for it not to end up agitating someone's nerves. Plus there what the whole Mirna of the situation and Menat was in no way looking to ever do something that even risked her siblings looking at her in a less than ideal light. Her gut told her to retract her roots before Alice could arrive but she paid those instincts no mind, continuing to feed on the nutrients in the soil as she listened to the former toy ramble on and on about how she had never been to picnics before only to go on and ramble instead about how she had actually been to numerous ones. Only not ones where she was able to eat herself.

Her voice faltered with a simple "oh" as she appeared in Menat's line of sight, meaning of course that she had also entered Alice's. Clearly the former doll hadn't realized from whatever Mirna had explained to her of Menat's transformation into a Spriggan that she was, for whatever it mattered, an actual plant person now. She paused to herself as a single rogue thought manifested itself. 'I swear whoever made her should have made her a blonde.' Menat found herself questioning that very thought. Where had she gotten that idea? That blondes tended to be more empty headed than non-blondes? Had she heard it somewhere in passing? She had been travelling quite a lot both before her adventures into Ipos, even back before her trip to Kina, and after she had spent those four long months within the dungeon. Now she found herself seemingly quoting Alice as the word "curious" came to mind about it.

It was enough for her to focus on something other than Alice's ramblings for the most part. The Spriggan Princess found herself tuning back in to the rather one sided conversation as the former doll started on about how it felt different to be Alice now and to be able to move on her own. "Alice, sorry to interrupt but you're rambling again." Menat spoke calmly to the lively golem. She had decided to give up on her meal, which she was only partway through, and had started to retract her roots back up from the soil. The tendrils of plant slithering back into her legs and twisting into a more natural foot form as the bark surrounding it moved back into place. Within a minute she was once again standing on what would appear as normal feet skillfully crafted from fine tree bark. "Was there something you needed me for? Is Mirna alright?" She shifted quickly to worrying of her younger sister's safety and overall situation.

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