[OPEN] breach your rippling pool

M i l d e w

Come down, little darling,
and lay at my breast

"Hard? Can't you see where you are? How could it be hard to stay in the most beautiful place on Caido?" Mildew asked with a laughing smile on her face, gesturing about to the mud and the reeds, the grey-yellow sky, each barren branch and cold gust of wind as delightful to her as a fully grown forest with a warm sun might be to others. "What's harder is all of you outside being kept out until now. I pity you."

There'd probably be more coming into her swamps soon, wanting favours and trinkets. It had been a long time since she'd made those and Mildew would have to practice, but there was excitement in her at that; a chance to flex her powers again, to serve the humans as was her task from Frey.

Aurelia seemed sweet enough and Mildew tilted her head from side to side at the final question, kneeling down to pick up a beetle from the ground that had flipped over and letting it climb over her hands. "I'm not a human, dear, but not quite a God either. Somewhere in-between, I suppose." Idly she turned her wrist, watchng her new little friend scurry between her fingers. "I help people with their problems. Or at least, I used to, before you all went away."

Oh, come a little closer
and I'll do the rest