Welcome to Gaia! ::

:::The smell is as overwhelming as the color. He has to try really hard not to let his eyes water, because he doesn't want a single detail to be scewed by tears.

He reaches up to touch one of the flowers growin around the entrance. The petals are soft and delicate, he leans down to take a breathe of it through his nose. He doesn't even close his eyes to focus on the smell alone, he wants to appreciate all of it:::

:::He could stand there at the terrace all day, just loving the vines on it:::

Rose.

:::His brow reclines, and looks at the flower with a tremendous sadness. He lowers to his knees by the bush, almost in reverence, but more so because he finds it hard to stand at the site of the famous beauty he'd longed to see for so long:::

:::He picks up his hand as though to touch one, but he stops, not sure if he should, out of pure respect. This symbol, that Tavin gave Cora to remind her of both sides of emotion...of pain and happiness, the thorns and the rose:::

:::He eventually puts his fingers at the hip of one bud...he puts his nose to it, and learns the smell of the legendary flower for the first time. No one had ever been able to describe it, because no one he'd ever met before the brink but his mother had ever smelled one:::

:::Tears start to fall again:::

:::He keeps his eyes on the rose, the tears still coming:::

This is why I'm alive Luana. This is why humans are alive. So that we can know what it's like to smell a rose, or drink wine, and give hugs... I'm just so sorry that I've gotten the oppertunity to experience this, while my people may never have the pleasure.

:::He shakes his head:::

I couldn't... at least, not now. Not like this. Let this be.

:::He lets go of the rose and stands up. He lets himself take a long look at the rest of the garden. There wasn't enough time in the world to appreciate it all as much as it deserved:::

:::Watching the symbolism of the rose in action was quite a site, but his tendancy to help the damsel in distress was overwhelming:::

Oh! Careful, Luana. :::He reaches out and gently pulls her hand towards him to see if it was at all serious. He saw that it wasn't, but he held on to it.

He looked back up to her face and smiled:::

:::As charmingly as a prince::: If I may, Luana... in my world, every thorn has it's rose.

:::He leans down and places a kiss on the scrape:::

:::He returns the smile. Kal enjoys seeing that he's able to make the girls swoon after all:::

Well, Luana...I take it there's more to see?

:::The find their way over to the lake, and begin to walk around its permiter. Kal is mostly quite, just observing all the beautful things about it. He never imagined water could be so alive:::

:::He takes a break from gazing endlessly at the waters, and turns to look at Luana with a smile:::

What is your family like?