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"Have you met any other Animated?"
"We're tied to this tree. =Bound like Prometheus= [VULNERABLE! DOOMED!] {We can't move *sob*} We don't meet anyone unless they come to us first. =And they *never* come.= [All alone with nothing but US.] {And the little notes THEY leave behind for us} (Yes, little one, them too!)"
"Wow. I didn't think of that."

"Do you know how you became Animated?"
"We felt the wind [the LIFE] (*our* lives) {it's everywhere!} move through us all and then {we saw!} (we heard!) =we tasted!= we awoke =Alive, but bound= [HUNGRY] and we knew that we were US and not just paper any longer. [ALIVE]{ALIVE!}=ALIVE!=(ALIVE!)"
"Yes... but do you know WHY you are alive?"
"An odd question (at least ill-concieved). Do YOU know why you are alive? =Maybe to ask silly questions?= [TO EAT!] {So we have someone to talk so we know we exist?}"
"Okay, fair point. You've got me there."

"How many of you are there?"
"We are like leaves. {many!}[ALL OF US!] As people bring more wishes, we are more. {scores!} =hordes!!= [LEGION!!!]"
"But all the notes that Animates are still here in the tree? What would happen if I took some of you to a place with more paper?"
"More...paper? [we could MULTIPLY!] =oh please oh please oh please...= [Take US!] (We could be ALL!)"
"I see. Well...maybe later then. It might be scary to have a whole library talking to me all at the same time."

"Is there anything that YOU all want to talk about?"
"The wind? The world? Our visions? (The visions of otherwheres?!?) [NO! DO NOT TELL!] {We're confused by them!} [TELL!]"
"You have visions?"
"Yes we do. [NO WE DON'T!] {we do we do we do} =Who cares? We are BOUND!="
"Can you describe those places to me?"
"Some of them...[NO!]. We see a high place =we see for miles!= near old stone where water once ran {the fighting!} where now only pain flows. [the pain tastes like FOOD]."
"Do you see anything else?"
"The wind {We love the wind} blows giant leaves around on a giant tree (not a tree) =must be a tree= not made by the world (ancient ancestor) {GAIA!}, but by those that live on it. [feeble frail things] {YOU!}"
"Interesting. Is that all?"
"Yes! [many more...but DO NOT TELL!] We will tell one more. A lance of light {so bright!} stabs out over a grey pond with no shores =big, big, BIG= bellowing out at the darkness."
"Your visons are odd but maybe there real places, after all."


When leaving...

"Good luck to you. I'm going to take off now...Tree"
"Not Tree. Wishes! (Notes!) =Paper!= {[(=US!=)]}"
"Wish Tree then. Either way...see ya."

when coming back

"You're back! {Hooray!} [..thought it would be dead by now...]"
"So I am. Back that is, not dead."
"We knew you would be back.=Ask it! Ask it!="
"No need to ask. No, I haven't found your vision places yet. Sorry."
"You will! {Have we seen it?} (No! Shhh...it doesn't know that we can see the layers of what might be.) =hehehe...if it did, it would hate us.= [EAT IT! IT KNOWS TOO MUCH!]"
"Ummm, right. I'll be back later then."