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A small nod in response to Krigg’s acknowledgement. They had been starting to notice some of the patterns of how the trees seemed to interlock in some places. Looking at the branches and how some of them started to intertwine was something that had captured their attention for a little bit.
Atieno had even got close to a tree themself to trace some of the grooves of the tree that had been left behind. Remnants of the growth of the tree and how it demonstrated itself in the moment.
It was during this time that they had noticed that Krigg had climbed up the tree and so they could be looking up at her.
“Hm, and so the tables have turned.“ They spoke with a dry, somewhat amused tone to their voice.
“I mean.. yeah. It gets a bit repetitive from time to time. That’s when I tend to just disperse for a while until I feel like trying to engage with people for a moment. I take a lot of breaks over the years.“ That’s probably the main thing that has kept them ‘together’ after it all.
“People tend to find the patterns of behavior that work within a given civilization and rely on them. So they will try out everything they are familiar with and unless they have information from elsewhere, it may not immediately occur to them to try things differently unless.. really forced to do so.“
“I mean, I’ll be the first one to admit people can be smart, but boy - we’re not infallible.” Krigg hooked her legs to the branch, before slowly lowering herself over the other side of it - until she was effectively dangling by her legs in front of Atieno. Feeling her hat slip from between her antennae, she quickly moved to plant it back against her cranium, continuing to talk. “Sometimes, our squishy organic brains just refuse to give us the straightest answer to a problem, or they just take the outlandish route because we missed a detail.”
“Honestly, I love that part exclusively because it trips the ever living shit out of more efficient, synthetic minds.” Krigg grins, amusement beaming through her expression. “Five times out of ten, they can’t compute that we’d do something dumb because of a brainfart, or because the wind blew in the wrong direction-”
Growwwlllll- Krigg blinked slowly at the gurgle that emanated quite rudely from her stomach, prompting her to look to it with wide, almost offended eyes. “Or because THAT, I guess?” She reached her free hand up to the branch, digging her claws in before unhooking her legs from it in a careful uncurling motion. She dangled in place for a moment, before kicking her legs, allowing herself to sway gently until she finally let go - and landed on her feet with a muffled thud, on soft leaf litter.
She perked up, shooting a look over her shoulder to Atieno with a wide grin, pointing a thumb towards the city. “Yo, it was a nice conversation, but I’m getting peckish. I’m going to head out to the city. You fancy eating something too? I can pay your grub, if you wanna’ continue to wax poetics about the nature of mortal life.”