Ravensblood Forest Thinking out loud.

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Charon knew a fact or two about words and their meaning, and so he instantly said when Scarlett gave her name, "But you're not red!" He said it more shocked than intended, as though it was simply impossible for someone to be named after a colour if they were not said colour. "That's weird, to be named after another name for a colour that you're not, isn't it?" He looked to Scarlett for guidance, as though he really expected her to call herself and her name weird.

"Spirits? That's sooo cool!" said Charon, completely ignoring the fact that she had just said that the spirit-story wasn't actually true. If it sounded really cool, then it was better to assume it to be true, in Charon's world.

Then Scarlett went on to tell him about how these trees resisted fires and how you could probably even take shelter in them if there was a fire. Throughout the story, Charon occasionally flung in some "Really?"'s and "Wooow, cool!"'s. He wondered if you could take the bark of the tree and make a den out of it, and have a fire-resistant den, but he didn't voice that opinion. Charon had never been in a fire, so he didn't know much about them, but he knew they were deadly and dangerous, and therefore not a thing to be messed with. Oh, and sometimes dragons threw them at you, which was also something not to be underestimated.

When Scarlett finished talking, Charon just stood and looked at the tree for a while. "So why didya come to see the tree, if you already knew so much about it?" As an afterthought he added, "'s It because you wanted to just see it for yourself 'cause if it looks cool being huge from afar, then it must be cool from close up? That's why I went here."