P-possibly headed to Paradisa in a few weeks

[treeshepherd]

Very hasty. Very hasty indeed.

Comments

[treeshepherd]

An Ent never makes a decision quickly and without understanding everything. Once we have all the information, then we may make a decision very quickly indeed.

[gamey]

An Ent?

[That's the term he's been given by the tree, and thus the term he will use until or if he says otherwise.]

It sounds very wise.

[treeshepherd]

Ent the earthborn, old as mountains. As we were once called, long ago.

Wise? What is wise? But I am very old.

[gamey]

[Mountains, eh?]

It seems wise to make a decision only after knowing all the details, that is what I meant.

[treeshepherd]

An Ent never makes a decision without fully understanding the details.

[gamey]

So you've said.

[Oh dear. Does the Ent have issues remembering, too?]

[treeshepherd]

[Merely patient enough to continue repeating the same answer over and over again.]

So I did.

[gamey]

[So Zazu is gathering.]

Sooooo...displeased with your mundane, or just not able to understand?

[treeshepherd]

She would send me away from my forest.

[gamey]

That sounds disconcerting, at the very least. My sympathies.

[treeshepherd]

Disconcerting and worrysome. Who will watch over the trees?

[gamey]

Are there none others like yourself that care for them as well?

[treeshepherd]

There re very few of us left.

[gamey]

Perhaps, sir, you should place some trust in those few. If there are not many Ents at all, I would assume they would all wish to keep the trees they care for safe.

[treeshepherd]

You may call me Treebeard, if you wish. My real name is much too long to say here. Because a true name is like a story and grows as you live. And I have lived a very long time indeed. But it is close to the meaning.

They would. All the same, I am not pleased with this.

[gamey]

[Well, that's a different take, but not too far from the ideology of the Circle of Life.]

Wonderful to meet you, Treebird. I [and here he does a little bow, wings outstretched] am Zazu.

It's natural to be displeased, I have come to realize. Being a puppet and all, as it is.

[treeshepherd]

[He rumbles slightly as he inclines his head.]

Zazu. Such quick names you small creatures have. I like it. It buzzes like bees and small insects.

[gamey]

[He'd hate to hear any louder rumblings.]

Like bees? I'm quite familiar with the bees and insects myself, though that's simply out of political duties.

[treeshepherd]

Hoom, they're quite pleasant to listen to, bees are.

Ah, politics.