Today I practiced manipulating multiple plants at the same time. I am confident in my ability to combine three plants into one, and based on how quickly i’m improving I should be able to make something using all of my plants in two or three days.

Here are a couple noteworthy combinations I’ve managed to make so far.

Combining Astrie and Singing Grass in a particular way lets me throw my voice. What I do is make a cup-like shape out of the singing grass with the base melded into a vine of Astrie. When I hold the other end of the Astrie vine and channel mana into it I can make the singing grass cup make noise. It took some practice but I did figure out how to make it form words, even in voices that aren’t mine.

When I created that the Female Ent came over, took one look at it, and recreated it. She then proceeded to make a mocking voice of Mest and started to run around with it. Mest was not pleased. That was the first time I can truly say that I’ve been intimidated by someone, I’m naturally gifted at manipulating plants and have roughly sixteen years of experience doing so, on top of that I’ve evolved into a form that's even more suited to manipulating plants and evey plant in this grove goes out of its way to make manipulating them easier for me, but she managed to figure something out that took me days of practice in less than a second. I’ve created something terrifying.

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While I’m on this tangent The Ents chose names for each other today, it was surprisingly sweet seeing them pick a name for their sibling. The female chose Kaire, pronounced kai-re, for her brother and the male chose Lulem, pronounced lu-lem, for his sister. Despite their terrifying magical potential, they are still my children and seeing this melts my technically non-existent heart.

Now that tangent is over back to what I was talking about. Another interesting combination I managed to make involved the crystallized mana berries, Singing Grass, and Glovine. This particular result was discovered by me losing concentration during its production because I heard something that sounded very similar to Mest screaming childish obscenities. I ended up making something that makes a very bright light and a very loud sound when the berry is popped. My ears were ringing for minutes after I popped it between my fingers while trying to figure out what it does. Could be very useful in a fight, easy and quick to make and uses very little mana, but I don’t want to experience that again.

Those were the only two really noteworthy combinations I managed to make, but I did make several other, less interesting ones.

Talus gave me a gem today, she said it was a late birthday gift. It wasn’t an ordinary gemstone, it couldn’t be used to store mana. Instead, if I were to overfill it with mana it would break, and temporarily grant me the ability to use some pretty potent fire magic, like burn a tree to ash in seconds kind of potent. I didn’t actually test it as it’s very much single use, but according to Tallus it will use up mana very quickly, and once i’m out the effect will end.

Apparently, it’s something Talus figured out how to make after eating that dragon, but it takes a lot out of her. If she were to really push herself she could make maybe two of them in a day, and it would leave her mana storage crippled for around a day.

It is a great gift, one I hope I never use.

Anyway, Good Night Diary