Somewhere in the darkness shines a little light on a blue horizon

i remember once having a conversation when i was about 8 with an adult, where i said i knew everything there was to know about myself. he laughed, and the older i grew, the more i realised why because... the more you know, the less you feel you know ;-)

When Osprey asked if he had mastered everything there was to know about being a Naturalist, he nodded, accepting her compliment of 'impressive' gracefully. "Yeah! I mean, y'know, I could always sharpen some skills and all, but I'm pretty much awesome at it already." All sharpening those skills would do would make the 'a' in awesome a capital A.

Charon did not entirely understand why he flattered Osprey; maybe because she was a Chronicler and he wanted to be one, partially because of how awesome Osprey was at it? He hadn't actually said that part out loud, though, so he wasn't too sure. Osprey then asked for a story, which Charon certainly didn't mind telling.

"Well, I already sort of told you one about the monster, but I suppose I could give you another one." Charon smiled at Osprey and as they continued to walk in the direction of the waterfall, Charon began his story, "Once upon a time, there was a really great wolf called, uhm... Shiv!" It was silly, but because 'osprey' was a bird, Charon instantly thought of a bird's name for the name -- he didn't want to use Osprey's direct name, but since the story was about her, it needed to have some reference. "So anyway, Shiv was a really cool wolf. She always went on lots and lots of adventures and she liked to go hunting and play-fighting with her friends. Sometimes they went dragon-chasing and danced with the crafting bears."

Charon looked at Osprey to see how she was liking the story so far. "Anyway, then this one time Shiv wasn't feeling well, because her tummy hurt, so she wasn't able to join her one friend on a crazy wicked cool adventure. So the friend said, 'Well, I'm not gonna wait around for you!' and he left. Ospr-- uhm, Shiv," Charon looked briefly to see if Osprey hadn't caught the mistake, "was sad and she was left all alone while her friends all went to have adventures together. Then the nerd wolf of the pack Leyno showed up. Shiv said 'what do you want, are you going to tease me because I teased you before?' and then Leyno smiled and he said 'no, i'm here to keep you company because i heard you had a tummy ache'. So then they spent the whole day together. And later when Shiv's tummy ache was better she didn't want to spend time with her old friends anymore and instead became best friends with Leyno because he was there for her when her other friends ditched her because they were lame. The end!"

Charon looked at Osprey, waiting for her judgement on the story. The story had derailed a bit at the end, for it wasn't really about an actual situation Osprey had ever been in; Charon was already a cool friend who was there for her, after all.