"No idea," Jigano had to admit, though it pained him to do so. His lips quirked up at the comment on luck, however, nodding wry agreement given how his own had turned in recent seasons. "Perhaps the barrier had some empowering effect on them, and without it they've weakened? Or they could simply be having a low yield this year... or perhaps predators from the Greatwood are taking their toll. Or some combination of those things, or others we don't know about. Or maybe they aren't really rarer, they've just popped up in less-populated places this year." Nature was a curious thing, and Frey would be the one to ask, though it seemed a somewhat frivolous question to pose the deity when a concerted effort to look for the odd plants might provide an answer without any need for divine intervention.
The final flower dodged the ice, but Jigano pulled the earth up beneath it, raising it five feet into the air on its own personal pillar of earth so that it wouldn't be able to dodge a second time, setting it up for Loren's next attack. "I'll take your word on it," he agreed with a chuckle, perfectly content to let Loren handle the gods of nature and fertility. The tale his friend requested was one that almost no one knew, really. He couldn't remember anyone else asking, in point of fact, and he had told no one of that first meeting with Ludo but Rory. "Mmm. It happened in the usual way, I suppose," he mused. " Ludo was the first to answer one of my prayers. They weren't particularly kind about it, in point of fact... and I had heard something of what they had put Remi through. But they were willing to offer me a trade and to uphold their part of it. The next time I went to pray to them they were more welcoming, and ever since it has been... never an easy relationship. They are not a god to ever be taken for granted. But... I know where I stand with them. The same cannot be said for myself and Safrin, and I have never prayed to Frey. I know that they enjoy being given orgasms for their favors, and that is an intimacy I prefer to save for my mate," he finished with a shrug.
The final flower dodged the ice, but Jigano pulled the earth up beneath it, raising it five feet into the air on its own personal pillar of earth so that it wouldn't be able to dodge a second time, setting it up for Loren's next attack. "I'll take your word on it," he agreed with a chuckle, perfectly content to let Loren handle the gods of nature and fertility. The tale his friend requested was one that almost no one knew, really. He couldn't remember anyone else asking, in point of fact, and he had told no one of that first meeting with Ludo but Rory. "Mmm. It happened in the usual way, I suppose," he mused. " Ludo was the first to answer one of my prayers. They weren't particularly kind about it, in point of fact... and I had heard something of what they had put Remi through. But they were willing to offer me a trade and to uphold their part of it. The next time I went to pray to them they were more welcoming, and ever since it has been... never an easy relationship. They are not a god to ever be taken for granted. But... I know where I stand with them. The same cannot be said for myself and Safrin, and I have never prayed to Frey. I know that they enjoy being given orgasms for their favors, and that is an intimacy I prefer to save for my mate," he finished with a shrug.
