[Video]

[coimiceoir]

[Well, someone's looking a bit more mature than usual... Aisling looks at least 13 instead of 6-8 years old - something about the shape of her face and the proportions of her hands as she brushes her hair back from a gilded tiara engraved with oak leaves. Unlike her normal, generally care-free attitude, she's actually looking a little worried.]

Does anyone know anything about something kidnapping animals and killing trees? There was some damage done yesterday, but before I could get there, the culprit was gone! One of my friends didn't come home last night, and no one around the damaged area is home either.

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[audio]

[coimiceoir]

You don't know anything about him. You've shut him up like a child - he can't speak, can't go anywhere. Nothing about that is normal.

[audio]

[thneed]

He's behaving.

[audio]

[coimiceoir]

[She doesn't answer right away, even if she doesn't stop moving. The longer she keeps him talking, the more likely she can find where he is this time. And behaving doesn't make any sense.]

He isn't behaving like himself.

[thneed]

[ inhale. exhale. ]

This is the new him. He's got a new perspective on life.

[audio]

[coimiceoir]

Then let him tell me. If he has chosen this himself, that is his choice to break with his pack. But let him say so.

[audio]

[thneed]

He doesn't want to speak to you.

[audio]

[coimiceoir]

[Short, sharp silence.]

I don't believe you.

[audio]

[thneed]

Well we don't believe in you.

[audio]

[coimiceoir]

I don't need your belief!

[audio]

[thneed]

We don't need you at all.

[audio]

[coimiceoir]

You don't speak for the forest. You may not need me - or want me at all! - but they do.

[audio]

[thneed]

They changed their minds. You can't speak to them anymore.

[audio]

[coimiceoir]

No. Only the ones you've touched. Everyone else is worried, and wants my help.

[audio]

[thneed]

They won't be worried for long.