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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4443647" data-attributes="member: 46559">"Why thank you, Erf!  How thoughtful!  Oh, and look, they're so beautiful!  Oh, what a lovely thing to think of," Kshatrya gushes.  She takes the flowers from Erf and throws her arms around his neck, hugging him to her in a rather gratifying way, given her slight height advantage on the hapless gnome.  After an all to short moment, she unlatches and places the flower bundle carefully on the surface of the pond, where it floats rather nicely.  "There.  Lovely.  Thank you so much.  Now, sit, make yourselves comfortable.  Gildrim was just telling me that Sister Anemone didn't send you here, and that she probably doesn't know about this shrine at all.  How fortunate that you came along!  Now you can take word of the shrine back to her, so that she can come and hear the voice of the goddess herself!  Now eat, and I'll tell you about how I came across this shrine.  It all started when I was just a fingerling..." The juice in the leaf-cups is thick slightly sticky, almost too sweet to drink, and the berries sharp and juicy.  Kshatrya tells a long and slightly disorganized tale of a childhood sense that she would find a purpose some day, and how as a young woman she climbed a strange wall, ate fallen fruit, and woke from a sun-drenched nap to find a voice speaking from the chalice, explaining that it was a place holy to the water goddess and calling her to serve.  "So now I stay here and tend the pond.  Sometimes the goddess speaks to me and has tasks for me, but sometimes she goes days or weeks at a time without speaking.  It's okay, since I'm happy to serve.  It does get a bit lonely, though.  Most of my sisters won't come visit me very often.  They say that it's too dry for them, because I won't let them swim in the pond.  It gets the shrine all muddy, you see.  But now you've come, and after we pray a bit you can start on your way back to tell everyone about this place, and I'll have lots of company!" she concludes, a happy smile on her face.</blockquote>

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