Canon: Final Fantasy XII (video game)
Characters: Fran, the Golmore Jungle
Warnings: None, except perhaps a slim chance of inaccuracy due to lack of familiarity with canon. Written for the
100_women challenge, prompt #3.
In a place where time is measured by the sunrise and sunset, and in a place where that sunrise and sunset often cannot be seen, time loses its meaning. It is sufficient to know that the creatures that dwell in the jungle have but brief lives. It is also sufficient to know that the trees hold wisdom, but only to those who can hear it.
Should it be any surprise that trees can speak? Do they not breathe, consume, and live? Those who have heard of such lore have often attempted to listen to trees by cultivating them, cutting them, and observing them -- such is the practice of students in natural histories -- only to find themselves failing miserably (or perhaps, more accurately, comically). Trees will not learn or lean to speak save if they are many. For the long years granted upon the lives of trees have taught them much knowledge: to crowd, to block light from reaching the earth, to huddle together, and perhaps most importantly, it had taught them the lesson that the wisdom of the wood should never be imparted unto those of brief lives.
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