“I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” The explorer stopped in his tracks as he looked over towards where the voice had come from. Sitting just a little off the path, or more of the slightly beaten down foliage that he was walking on, was an elderly woman. She practically blended in with the surrounding area with her green dirt covered smock, or dress, he really couldn’t tell as she almost seemed to be a shapeless figure. She was scribbling in some sort of book, as if she had not spoken, but then her mouth opened again and she continued to speak, as if he hadn’t stop, in a fairly sharp bitter tone, like a harsh winter breeze, “ ‘course none of those other folk ever listen to this old fart…”
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Slowly her laughter died away as she stared up towards the sky, “…we all thought it was God once again blessing us…” Her voice shook as she rubbed her nose, “We were wrong… No one thought to ask why? Or how?” Slowly he leaned forward as he asked rather hush fully, “What …show more content…
Bigger than that, almost got bigger than a car tire…”
The explorer could feel his mind working, the estimates beginning to grow, if those flowers were that big 70 years ago, how big are they now? His investment was growing stronger, but apparently whatever his face was doing, seemed to offend the elder as she snapped, “Don’t look at me like that. We may have respected nature, but we weren’t so out of the way to not have some of society’s tools.” She crossed her arms as she looked away, “We just used them the right way.”
He tried to turn his face to be blank once again as he gently spoke, “Ma’am I’m sorry, I meant no offense.” She scoffed at him, “Please tell me more… Did people get