Galanoud sighed softly after a brief silence—something she did frequently in her conversation with Joshua today. "Radcliffe," she said a little feebly, "nobody could keep up the conversation with the way you speak."
Still, she appeared not to mind, as if she was used to similar beings who spoke freely without any being aware of their environment. Shaking her head, she simply delved into the heart of the matter as well.
"Then I shall speak frankly—it concerns the World Tree."
"World Tree? That Seed?" Joshua asked doubtfully in return, and it was clear he did not find anything wrong with the way he spoke and was not conscious at all about his own Emotional Quotient.
"Indeed, the Seed reawakened by Father Nature in the Great Ajax Volcano," Galanoud said patiently. "You must have heard rumors that there had been dissent amongst the elves. Everything began with the World Tree."
