CASIMIRA
i’m only whatever you make me
She had been mulling over what she might want to bring back to the mountain, but found it difficult to settle on any one thing. Casimira had been born in Tephra (as many had), and when she thought of the volcanic kingdom it wasn’t so much a thing in particular that stood out to her, but rather that sum of all the parts that created a whole. Her hope is that the resurrection would mean everything would come back, but what if it did not? What if only the things they actually gathered are what Tephra would now be made of/
That wouldn’t be a bad thing (she didn’t care, as long as it returned), necessarily, but she is worried that should that actually happen she would realize that there is something that she gravely misses.
As her and her companions traverse the forest, she focuses on each plant and animal that crosses her path, taking it in to be sure it is not something she needs. It is just as she rounds a particularly thick copse of trees that she finds the familiar sight of a phoenix hummingbird, just like the one that had been on the mountain earlier, and she can feel herself start to smile. It is not until she takes in the flower that the hummingbird was trying to extract nectar from that she feels her heart leap into her throat. There, growing strangely from the tightly woven trunks of the trees, was a black orchid — not so different from what grows in Tephra, but identical to the kind that was woven into Savior’s mane.
She knew then in that instant that she does not want a Tephra that exists without orchids.
She does not even stop to consider the strangeness of it; that this forest is not the ideal area for an orchid to grow, but then again, neither is it a place for a phoenix hummingbird.
Carefully, she extracts the long stem, mindful of the soft petals that brush against her lips. The hummingbird flits near her face in protest, but all she does is extend her nose outwards, offering the face of a flower to the bird. She wants to tell it that if only it gives her some time and it will never have to go hunting for warmth and orchids again.
tldr she's bringing back an orchid