Child of Kass

Why is it, that wherever I go, whatever I do, something bad always has to happen! My first flight was a disaster. I got lost. Got the tip of my tail burnt almost clean off by some paranoid Draik. Caused trouble for an innocent girl and her friends. And now! I'm stuck next to a crazy tree, with a brain! Oh, it's talking now too.

"You! Why have you approached me?"

I got up and tried to brush the dirt off my fur. "I'm sorry sir. I just fell."

"Wait…you have Balthazar's scent on you. Yes..definately. I'd recognize that smell anywhere. I'm just surprised he didn't eat you at first glance. After all, flying is an Eyrie's best defense since they can fly so well. And since you obviously can't do that very well, it should have be to easy for Balthazar to overcome you. What is your secret?"

Well I was surprised this thing could smell for that matter. It had a hole for a nose! And a mouth, and eyes! How did it see me! One thing was for sure, his brain worked. He was right about Balthazar. He was certainly very vicious, as were the Were Lupes he travaled with.

"It's a long story." And frankly, I was tired of telling it. "And why should I tell you? You'll probably just forget it, you already have to much stuff in that brain of yours."

"Little girl! I am the Brain Tree! I can absorb as much information as I can ever possibly desire! I, my dear, can never know enough."

I sighed. I did not have time or patience for this.

"I really don't have the time to tell you."

The few leaves on his branches shook violently and he roared. "Well make time! I can't pass up the opportunity to learn about a Darigan Eyrie, especially one that has escaped Balthazar with almost no skills whatsoever!"

"Fine! You want to know that bad! I'll tell you…"

I began to tell him my entire story. Whatever I could remember that is. Halfway through I grew very impatient because he looked as if he was sleeping! Why should I bother talking to people if they won't listen!

"And that's it. Were you even listening!"

He grumbled and opened his eyes. "Insolent child! Do you have no respect for the wise? Do you even know what the word wise means?"

Of course I did, I'm not stupid. Knowing this guy though, he could make up a new definition. "Yes, it means being intelligent. Being smart."

"No! Do you think you are wise?"

"Yes. I think so."

"Then you are not."

"Excuse me?"

"The wise can not know that they are wise. Like…fish for example."

Great. I'm being lectured about fish by a grumpy old tree.

"Fish?"

"Yes. Fish do not know they are wet, for they are always swimming. Rocks don't know they are hard, for they never become soft nor do they move. Grass doesn't know it's greeness, for it can not see! It is the way of the world child!"

"So a wise person can't know they are wise?"

"Yes. Only another person could tell you."

Well, it was starting to become logical. Sort of…

"So then, what is wisdom?"

He chuckled. "Wisdom is thinking of the afterwards."

…What?

"But you can't know what is going to happen. Only a psychic, or amind reader can."

"Let me ask you something. What do you think would happen if you…jumped of that cliff right now?"

He gestured to a cliff. Looking over it, it seemed to head straight to an ocean below. Several pointed rocks and fallen logs littered the ground. Well I wonder.

"Considering my wings aren't in the best shape, and that I'm very tired, I would probably fall to the ground and die. What does that have to do with anything?"

He laughed again. I must have missed the joke.

"You see. You do know, and with that knowledge you would know not to jump."

"But that's just common sense. Even if I was ready to jump I wouldn't, because there would be that chance that I still might fall."

I received no response. Turning back around, I noticed that the face that once decorated the tree's front was gone, replaced by regular tree bark. The only thing still out of place was the brain, which pulsed every so often.

"Yeah, nevermind."

Someone shouted at me from behind. "You! We got you now!"

"No, not more guards!" I whined tirdely.


Written: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:52 PM

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Digital Skitty: Thanks for that correction. Neopia does sound much better than Neopea. I havn't been on they site very often.