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No wonder he feels so authentic, then! :)

Olive felt the heat of her cheeks as they turned tinctured pink. She truly did not believe his words and was slightly embarrassed by them. But, Olive appreciated his genuine and complaisant character. It was such…. earthly innocence. It was mesmerizing.  “I could say the same thing about you.” Then the sylph hastened to their next topic.

“I suppose you are correct, Birk. ” the fae conceded with a toss of her head — he was correct about secrecy, after all! A secret, when uttered to the wind, was free to travel and wander at will. But Olive’s idea was less cloak-and-dagger and more of a whispered astrological conjecture.  “Well, the secret is about the powerful forces at play… out there.” 

The nymph could not help but twist her grey lips into a smile and her eye gaze swept upwards, towards the stars. The cold winter currents had kept the night’s sky clear for them, allowing for a picturesque vantage point. “There is a planet between our earth and the sun, called mercury. It’s one of the five brightest stars in the sky… besides the sun and the moon, of course. It travels ‘round the earth in much the same manner, too.” Olive searched the map of the sky to find Mercury, but found she couldn’t. Reading energies was one thing, but the skill to visually locate individual planets and constellations was another thing entirely. “Soon, mercury will go into retrograde. It will appear to move backward in the night sky, and as mercury regresses for those few weeks, all manner of... mischievous things start to happen.” The tales of mercury retrograde had been passed down to her from her dear mother, but Olive, herself, was still diligently studying the phenomenon.

As she let the oracle sit thick between then, Olive became highly curious of Birk’s reception. The woman of ash and cream leaned in towards him, leaving space for him to make comments or questions [if he desired].