Jīvitaya grins, and Iyokú claps. "Good job! In time, you can make it hold itself together without you always focusing on it, but you can't do that yet. That will take more practice. Now, do you want to grow something?" Jīvitaya nods, still grinning. She opens her palms and lets the pile fall through her fingers to rejoin on the ground. "Okay, place your palm flat against the ground." She continues speaking as Jīvitaya does what she asks. "In time, you won't have to touch the ground to grow something, but it's a crutch for now. I want you to think of a seed, any type you want. Imagine a little green sprout breaking through its surface and shooting up through the ground to reach the sunlight."

Jīvitaya thinks of a Wood Lilly, imagining it stirring in its seed and breaking free, unfurling until it breaks through the surface. An instant later, a tiny bit of green pokes through the soil. She keeps going, and the plant grows taller and taller until a bud emerges from the top of the stem. It blooms into a vibrant sunset orange flower and Jīvitaya pulls her hand away, beaming. Iyokú crouches down to examine it, lifting one of the petals and stroking the leaves.

"What type of flower is this? I've never seen it before."

Jīvitaya giggles. "You wouldn't have seen it, it's an earthen flower."

"What's it called?"

"It's a Wood Lilly. They are my favorites."

Iyokú smiles. "It's lovely. Now, would you care to show me your technique now?"

Jīvitaya nods. "Okay. I want you to open your senses."

Iyokú laughs. "I need more than that! What way should I open them?"

"Picture seeing everything as different lights. Different things will likely be different colors."

She opens her own senses, looking at Iyokú. She appears as a silvery light, with threads of green webbing through her. Jīvitaya looks down at herself, to see the same silver light, but hers is webbed with so many more colors. In front of her, Iyokú gasps.

"You're so colorful!"

"What do you see?"

She squints. "You're made up of silver light, with strands of pale and dark blue, green, orange, and a bunch of strands that seem to pulse with rainbow light." She frowns, then her expression lights up. "The silver light is air, we all have that, and the strands must be your other powers!"

Jīvitaya nods. "I think so too. Now, turn your attention away from our lights, and look around you."

Iyokú does, turning in a circle, her eyes wide. "The trees are pale green, and what are those spots of red?"

"Animals."

Iyokú continues to turn in a circle, before stopping suddenly. "What is that?"

Jīvitaya turns to look at what Iyokú sees, and sighs at the flaring mess of dark light. "It's the well." Iyokú recoils in fear. "Does everyone know that story?"

Iyokú nods shakily. "Why is it so dark?"

"Normally, the darkness means that it needs to be healed, but my mother said that the well just emits wrong energy. Maybe that's why it's flaring."

Iyokú frowns. "It's not flaring, it's just dark light."

Jīvitaya frowns to herself, confused. She pushes the thought aside, not wanting to dwell on the matter of the well.

"Push the well aside, and look again for little dark spots."

Iyokú nods, and then points. "Over there."

Jīvitaya grins. "Let's go fix it then, shall we?"

Iyokú nods and starts walking toward it, still getting distracted every few moments by the lights, especially every time an animal whizzes past, the red popping out against the green. They arrive at the tree to find that it's a case of withheld nutrients once again. That must be the most common problem. Jīvitaya lets out a bit of startled laughter, amused at the situation. Iyokú will be learning with the same situation Jīvitaya did.

"Sit down." Iyokú does do, her eyes searching for the cause of the imbalance. "Try to figure out what the problem is."

"All the other trees have little lights beneath them, but this one doesn't."

Jīvitaya nods. "What are those lights?"

Iyokú frowns, concentrating, her hand splayed. "Nutrients?"

Jīvitaya grins. "Correct. Now, can you find a spot where the nutrients are all dammed up?"

Iyokú points. "In between those two trees?"

Jīvitaya nods. "Good. Now, I want you to close your eyes because it might help with this part at first. Try to pull those nutrients towards you and the tree."

Iyokú's hands glow slightly, but Jīvitaya sees that the nutrients don't budge. Iyokú turns to look up at Jīvitaya.

"It didn't work."

Jīvitaya smiles at her encouragingly. "It didn't work for me the first time, either. Try again."

Iyokú sighs but does as Jīvitaya says, and her hand glows once more. The nutrients move slightly, but they get trapped by the roots of the two trees. She sighs.

"Jīvitaya, it's not working. I can't do it."

"It's not your fault, you've never done it before. I know you can do it, it just takes practice. Besides, those two trees are being greedy and want all the nutrients for themselves, so they're trapping the nutrients. I'll help you get them past, but then you have to bring them the rest of the way."

Jīvitaya sits down beside Iyokú and splays her palm against the ground. She pulls at the nutrients, but they resist. She pulls harder, and they inch over and around the tangle of roots blocking them, one pocket at a time. Finally, the last little pocket she needs is out of the maze of roots, and she relinquished her hold over them.

"Okay, I got them through the mess of roots. It's your turn again."

Iyokú grabs onto them and the nutrients inch their way over, finally collecting with the roots of the deficient tree. She beams.

"I did it!"

"Yes, you did! High five!" Jīvitaya holds her palm up in the air, but Iyokú looks at her in confusion.

"What's a high five?"

"It can be used as a greeting, as a way to congratulate someone, all sorts of stuff."

"Oh." Iyokú presses her palm against Jīvitaya's cautiously. Jīvitaya laughs.

"Harder than that! Let's try again."

They bring their hands toward each other and collide with a satisfying clap. Jīvitaya looks at the sky and frowns.

"How soon would you say it is until it gets dark?"

Iyokú looks up. "A few hours, why?"

"I have some more training to do."

Iyokú grins. "Have fun, and I'll see you tomorrow!"

Jīvitaya smiles and waves back at her as she walks out of the forest and back toward the city, still smiling to herself.

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Why do you think the well looks different when the two look at it? It flares for Jīvitaya but not for Iyokú.

Here are some pictures for you guys! Top one is Jīvitaya, bottom is Iyokú.

And who doesn't know what a wood Lilly is? Here are some pictures for you guys.

~Goddess of Fate, signing out.