Ascension of the Sylvan Cosmos

Chapter 134. Runecrafter Mariane.

After Mariane appeared, she approached and gave Tempestria a big hug. "Why did you take so long to visit!?" The gentle and not annoying buzzing sound of her wings filled the room as she turned to look at Verdantia and Cinderielle.

She talked to them with enthusiasm no smaller than with Tempestria. "Hello! Are you here to buy? Donate? Or to give your bodies in the name of research!? I am fine with any of those options!"

Verdantia lifted an eyebrow at their interaction and asked. "What's your relationship with Tempestria?"

Mariane tilted her head, her antennae and wings flopping with the head movement in a cute manner. "Why'd you ask?"

Tempestria looked at Verdantia and rolled her eyes. "It's not what you think. She was captured, and I saved her in a mission, a story about a rescuer and the rescuee becoming friends."

Mariane nodded a few times, creating puffs of scales. "That's right!" Then, Mariane's eyes fell on Cinderielle, and before they knew it, the moth was in front of the fire sylvan, her black, pearly eyes glittering with excitement. "Such pretty red hair! Such pretty orange eyes! Such a tempting aura! Are you a Fire Sylvan?"

Cinderielle blinked a few times, not used to being surrounded by the moth's scales. "I am, why?"

Mariane asked with excitement. "Create fire!"

"What?"

Ignoring the flabbergasted expression of the three, Mariane asked again. "Create fire!"

Cinderielle wasn't sure of what was happening, but she extended her hand and created fire. Mariane looked at it, and then... she looked at it some more, and then...! She continued looking at it.

"Hey, Tempestria..." stunned by the current development, she asked. "What's happening?"

Verdantia commented. "Does she have an instinct like a common moth to go close to fire?"

Tempestria laughed awkwardly. "At least she isn't approaching it to burn herself down."

Cinderielle stopped the fire, and Mariane snapped out of her daze. "That was so pretty! I think it is the best fire I've seen in my life! So pure and nice!"

Cinderielle thought of something and asked with trepidation. "By the way, how did you get captured in the first place? I can feel that you are relatively strong, right?"

Mariane smiled widely. "Well! They had a pretty light, so I went to see and got captured!"

The three Sylvan deadpanned. 'I see, her survival instincts are in the negative.'

Tempestria coughed. "So, Mariane, are you up to listening to our offer?"

Mariana walked and sat on a chair, looking at them with a straight back and attentive eyes. "Fire!"

Verdantia frowned. "What?"

Mariane repeated. "Fire your offer!"

"Oh! Okay, listen then. We want you to work with a creature that's very delicate and unique. While we can't really say what kind of creature she is, I can guarantee that as long as you want to work with something exotic, you will be delighted to work for her."

Mariane tilted her head cutely, her antennae flopping to the side. "Why can't you speak about it?"

Verdantia said. "Well... We are in Fortuna City, so there are quite a lot of unwanted ears."

Mariane exclaimed. "Ohhh! That's the problem? Then..." Mariane stood up and approached the far left wall, leaving a trail of powdery scales behind. Then, with enthusiasm, she smacked the wall. "Bam! Hearing is bad!"