I managed to finish up perfecting the Drowsy Clover modification before lunch today. Its only effect is to calm down the person that ingests it, regardless of how it is ingested. I even managed to concentrate it to a rather extreme degree, to the point that it started to form crystals of the particular substance on its leaves.

Of course, that was hardly the most interesting thing that happened today.

Just after lunch, I felt a very large ball of mana approaching, and so did everyone else with at least a little magical ability. A couple of us gather at the edge of a grove to see what it was, only to watch a ball of light crest a nearby hill. I had no idea what it was, but Mest, Tiddol, and Thes knew instantly, it is An Origin.

When it got close I could feel some kind of connection too it, and so could Willow. I was reminded of a conversation I had a while back about how creations feel attached to their creators, following my own creation of the Ents. This particular Origin created, or helped create, Sprites and Nymphs.

It decided to stay in my grove for a while but didn’t explain why. I’m fine with it, what better creature to learn about the intricacies of creation from than one of the first creators. The fact that it reminds me of my parents in a good way helps.

It talked with verbal language but seemed to struggle with it, like they haven’t quite mastered it. On the other hand, they communicated with me in a manner very similar to how my plants do, only with much more clarity. Don’t get me wrong, it was still very emotional and conceptual, it’s just that those emotions and concepts were much easier to understand. Whether that clarity is from sentience, something all my plants lack, or from experience I don’t know, but I did find myself struggling to make myself understood as clearly.

The seemed to favor Willow and me above everyone else, which makes sense because they created the first of our respective species. The result of that is the fact that the two of us learned a lot more about their past, which is old even by Origin standards. It was a quiet existence, nothing really in the way of conflict or suffering, except recently as they have had to watch old friends either sacrifice a large part of themselves or die, the only reason they have survived so long is they have had millennia on most Origin to hone their ability to control mana.

They haven’t yet explained why they are here, but hopefully, they will tomorrow.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.