dramatispersonae | EMERALD and IOLITE

EMERALD and IOLITE

Dark stone makes up the walls of this small cool room, and they tremble faintly as if afflicted with some terrible noise or nearby conflict.

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[ The book suddenly breaks free of the stone; it is now made of paper and cloth binding. Only one page shows any words, however. ]

Within me lies a home for creatures
Along with many other features.
See only trees and I am out of range.
To find me, make a softer change.

A mountain, a forest . . . Hm, the sky?

I wonder what the "softer change" part is about, though...?

That's what has me. I don't know what kind of change is soft, but we are soft now. The other animals would be too, but we're the only ones capable of flight . . . Eventually.

Hmm... I just hope it isn't something like "the earth" or "underground"...

Let's focus on the last two lines. We should be seeing something other than trees, and it is something that has to be found.

Hmm... Forest does seem to make the most sense. Combining the "out of range", I suppose that the "softer change" would be... a change in perspective? Which feeds into the phrase "missed the forest for the trees". Riddles like their plays on words, after all...

It fits with what we are now, since flying is an easy way to change perspective. Between underground, like a cave or a burrow, and a forest, which do you think?

I would say a forest, yeah.

Then, let's try forest.

A forest?

[ the book flutters its pages in an oddly warm and approving fashion; for a moment the room smells of trees and woodland things. Then the book shuts and turns to stone once more ]

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EMERALD and IOLITE

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