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The Never Ending Quest - Episode 115200

"What is your name, child?" Aerwyna asks as they walk.

"Susie."

The dryad grimaces. That won't do at all. "I shall give you a nymph name, while you are here. You shall be called Sereia."

"Serray-uh," the girl enunciates carefully. Aerwyna nods conciliatorily.

First she takes Sereia to eat the fruit from Melusinth's tree, which has been shown to have an intoxicating effect on humans, though they've never seen the long term effects of it, as everyone who has eaten of it has done so without permission, and been appropriately punished. Sereia's eyes go wide and full of stars as soon as she takes her first bite, and she finishes the fruit with dreamlike slowness and proceeds to stare around at the trees as if she's seeing the very universe unfold before her.

Soon Sereia seems to grow very sleepy, and she falls fast asleep in the roots of Melusinth's tree. While she sleeps, the nymphs remove her coarse human clothing and cause moss to grow all over her skin and in her hair. They braid flowers and blades of long grass into her hair and use their magic to plant seeds under her skin which will grow into beautiful flowering plants.

When Susie wakes up...

  1. much, much more time has passed than usually does while one sleeps. Why in fact, it appears that she has slept for years...
  2. it is the following morning, and she has slept off her "high" from Melusinth's fruit. She is startled at first by the growing things all over her but quickly becomes delighted.
  3. it is the following morning, and she still gazes around dumbly at the forest, unable to fully process its absolute beauty.
  4. it is the following morning, and she cries out in shock and fear on realizing that she is covered in growing things.
  5. Susie actually doesn't wake up on her own. After a few years, Charlie returns to the orphanage to collect Susie, and when Miss Evelyn tells him she disappeared on night one, he immediately sets off to search for her.

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