Feeling nature's calling is something else

LOCATION The north part of the woods
DATE 6th of August 2021
TIME midday
OUTFIT Link
TOPIC FOR @Katelyn
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It seemed like what he had needed most of all, to just be connected with nature after so long time apart. The forest here in the Athena region was something, had an energy like no other place, and he enjoyed that. Sitting in a clearing, just with his legs crossed taking in the energies around him. Feeling the sun on his face, this was peace, quite and still so powerful. Feeling the small breeze run over his face where the sun's warmth was providing with a show of force. But he needed this, just sitting here feeling in one with the ground beneath him, and everything around him. The sounds of the birds singing in the tree tops, he listened to their song, oh how he had missed that. He suddenly opened his eyes a little bit, feeling his senses to off, it was an instinct he couldn't get rid off, knowing whenever there was a supernatural creature close to him. Not that he minded, but it still made him aware that he wasn't alone. But he didn't get up, not as his eyes spotted a smaller blonde girl not far from the clearing. Perhaps it was the nature around him telling him she wasn't a threat, that she was even more connected to the environment they were in than he was. "Beautiful day, isn't it?" He asked, his voice calm and warm, keeping himself seated not wanting to come off at a threat in anyway. Just enjoying his freedom and the sun on his face.

He didn't really move as she walked closer, but he was curious about what she was. But the nature trusted her completely, as if they were one, which first of all had caught his full attention. A smile snuck up on his lips and he chuckled lightly by her words. "I bet you haven't," he took a deeper breath in. "I've just come back, being locked away from all this in what feels like a life time -" he found his own honesty quite surprising. Perhaps it was just the way she like him was connected to the enverment they were in, he was gaining his strength back. Reginald frowned a bit as he narrowed his eyes looking towards her. She did remind him off someone. "Nice to meet you Katelyn, the name is Reginald," he lifted his hand up towards her wanting to greet her politely. Her eyes was special, infused with nature like magic he had only seen in one other being before. And he had seen plenty of remarkable things. However, he could also feel as she got closer, how low on energy she was, just like himself - but it seemed so being two different reasons. He had just been to disconnected from nature. Getting back here and connecting with one's roots, seemed like the best way to get back to yourself. He nodded to the side. "Sit with me," he insisted with a warm smile on his lips. "Just sit down and feel the energies from the earth underneath you, returning to you."

"I can tell the forest really likes you, so I guess you are to thank for taking care of it while I've been away," he chuckled a bit and looked to her again. He couldn't explain this connection he felt to her, just like he did to the nature. It was different, but in the best way possible.

His interest peaked when she mentioned that the forest had given her life as an infant, see this was a rare phenomena. People could be looking at her like she had said something completely mental, but Reginald he had lived and studied so many beings in his life - he knew better than believe that anyone was simply crazy for saying something like that. Himself, he had been told stories by his mother many years ago about how this Goddess had granted him these special powers to help defeat all evil. He had even met this Goddess, Imera before. And giving life to a young child in need of life, it sounded like something Imera would do, just from the kindness of her heart. Her question made him smile. "My whole life actually, back in my youth there was a Goddess granting a woman's child power to help defeat the evil that was around the village. That child was me," he chuckled a bit. It seemed like forever ago, it was forever ago. Reginald took a slightly deeper breath in. Reginald had been around to see the world turn into less and less nature, seeing how machines and buildings were ruining everything, and he had felt it as someone was trying to strangle him. But as with everything you got used to that life moved ahead, people evolved and created new things - he just wished that they would stop taking it out of the nature - no wonder Nature was bitting back. "You take a tool not long time ago didn't you? I can feel how the forest tires to give you back the energy you lost," he was quite blunt about it, because he could feel his own powers leave him to help support the younger soul. He for one knew when Nature called out to help someone.

It was rare that many had read about him, or it wasn't, but the story that young Katelyn seemed to know - that was rare people knew of that. At least that version of it. He laughed a little, looking up to the sky for a moment. "That is correct," he confirmed before turning his head towards her again. Well, it wasn't normal for a human to be this old, and he still thanked Cassian to this day for making it happen. Reginald however, didn't really know how to explain it, or he did, but it had been such a long time since he had even thought about the fact: he wasn't supposed to be this old. "And old friend of mine, more like a brother actually helped me once I was in need. Very powerful warlock," he breathed out a bit pained and turned his eyes back to the sky. He wondered where Cassian was to this day, he had promised him to come back from him - but the promise had been broken by Thomas, making him unable to reach Cassian again. Still, even if it wasn't Reginald's fault he still felt like he should have done more.

Reginald turned his attention from his thoughts back to Katelyn, smiling when she pointed out that she was only seventeen. He assumed so. He pressed his brows together as he listened to her tale. About how it had come to her losing so much of her energy. That she had found her powers that night, he didn't know what that night was or what was speciel about it - not other than she told him what had happened. The father's girlfriend getting shot at by some man - something in her snapped. He knew that feeling. Even if he was old, he still remembered the first time he truly snapped and unleashed an earthquake so big that it shock the entire village where he was at. "You have the energies of the forest roaming in your soul kid, it will always be there for you when you need it. You might just not have realized it till that night, anger is a powerful tool in terms of trigger. But just know, I'm sure you don't need anger to use it another time. The nature will guide you," he responded to what she had told him. He wasn't shocked by the tale. "Nature will provide you back with the energy you lost, you just have to close your eyes and feel how it restores in your system."

Reginald was pleased to learn that anger hadn't been the source of the outburst, not that fear was much better. Fear was perhaps even more dangerous, because just like anger fear was increasing so easily. "Fear is sometimes just as strong enough an tool as anger," he replied while breathing out. Many people took their fear and turned it into something, often anger, he was like that himself, but had also learned it was only because anger was easier. Then he asked her about a very rare species Aasimar, he had heard stories before, not many - it hadn't really been creatures like that he had hunted back in the day, but it didn't mean his own curiosity hadn't made him listen in for information about what he could. "Many years ago, I heard about a few over the years," Reginald had nothing form his old archives or he did, but it would take a travel to other countries before he would be able to collect everything he had saved over the last many years. But it was also a way of saying no to the past, letting it be in the past.

He had put the puzzle together when she had asked, a curious creature she was, but then there was the nature soothing the trusting energies between them, letting them know they were safe. "I can imagine it most be difficult for your parents to find enough information, its not like you are many - or there is a lot of information to find," he looked to her. It wasn't very day young girls roamed around in the forest all by themselves, even if they were a Aasimar, deeply entangled with nature. "Speaking of parents, only seventeen year old Katelyn," he sat up and looked at her. "Do they know you are out here in the woods by yourself?" Not that she per say was by herself, he was there - but a worried parents wouldn't really just count on a stranger to watch over their child. So, one could call it a fatherly instinct to ask. Not that she seemed worried, even by the shootings and triggered powers. "Not that there is any danger near by, you might just remind me of someone," maybe it was the spark in her eyes, something beyond the nature connection they shared, there was something about her that reminded him of his son.

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