learn a thing or two

"Ohhh... Wind patterns. I see!" Ignita slyly agreed with a mischievous grin of her own. She knew it was bullshit. She watched as the little one came down with soft wings, nearly floating on her way.

Odette asked her what she was teaching and Ignita squinted into a smile at her for a moment while she thought carefully. She glanced back up at the tree and then back down to Odette.

"Hmm.... Do you want to learn wind patterns or how we can use a tree like this for something fun?" She asked with a smirk. Palm trees were palm trees, right? Surely they worked just as well here as they did in the desert.

She grabbed some discarded rope that hadn't seemed to have made it to the storeroom and showed Odette how to make a knot on one end, then swung it over the top of a smaller palm tree and gave it a few tugs so it would get stuck in the fronds.

"Someone showed me this once, I hope I can remember how it works better than I remember their name!" She giggled at Odette, "Why don't you test to make sure the knot is secure up there, Miss Monkey?" She offered as she held the other end of the rope. A makeshift trebuchet was probably going to be a bit easier to construct than a miniature...


"Speech"