Galvan Wizards! [For Nita and Azmuth]

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[Based off of this story by Cybra]

Oh, great, Nita thought, awareness coming back to her. Her first real interaction with the First Thinker himself, and what does she do but faint!

He must think terribly of me...

Oh, he will if you don't get up now!, some other voice - which was really probably her conscience, or so she assumed - snarked, so she reached out to do just that-

Comments

We are so going to get into technobabble about plants. |D

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Nita nodded jerkily.

"Yes. Plants, and the mini-ecosystems they often sustain."

Stretching all the way up to world-spanning biomes.

Welcome to playing a Galvan. XD Technobabble is required.

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Azmuth nodded his head with approval. "What sort of experimentation have you done with the Speech and plants?"

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At that question, Nita managed a smile.

"Reports. Not just altering controlled environmental conditions, but asking a plant if it can feel the difference - with external verification, of course."

Because one doesn't rely on just one source!

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"Have you been working with native Galvan species or anything from other planets?"

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"More of the former than the latter, though I'd like to fix that imbalance as soon as possible," Nita answered, shifting slightly from one foot to the other.

"But from what I've gathered so far, plants from different biodomains... well, they sound different, sometimes moreso from others on the same planet than those that come from different worlds."

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"Care to elaborate? Galvan Prime itself one large swamp, so I'd assume they had more or less the same 'accent'."

At the same time, he walked farther into the lab. He had something that she could use her skills on as a demonstration.

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"It is weird," Nita admitted,

"And the plants didn't give me the impression they couldn't communicate with each other, inasmuch as flora can, but those that had been extracted from near different cities or more obscure regions seemed separate from each other, in some way."

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"Regional dialects?" he asked, intrigued. Botany wasn't his strongest focus, and his usage of the Speech with plants was a bit limited.

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"That might be the best way to put it, yes," Nita said.

"I made some recordings, as well..."

Though it had certainly felt odd, when it otherwise seemed like no one was speaking. She'd had to use her Instrumentality to store the data, though once it'd been recorded transmission was simple enough.