🦊 Планета Флерантор, осколки человечества 🦊

When the meeting ended, Ida didn't leave the gathering place immediately. She was still confused and trying to process what had happened.
Time passed unnoticed, and she didn't even notice when one of the participants approached her. The girl only knew that he, like her, belonged to the clan of scholars. But she had no idea who he was or what he wanted from her.
Ida did not resist his invitation to talk, especially since it was clearly somewhere in private. She simply went in the indicated direction, as she herself was curious about what this young man could want from her.

Having moved away with her new "acquaintance" "far enough," Aristarkh switched to a whisper.

"I am Aristarkh, a student of the wise Augur. Mahra is a victim of experiments by your teacher Utar. He once implanted a root of the chthonic forest into her. Don't even ask me how I know..."
"As a result of this 'experiment,' Mahra lost the ability to speak but gained inhuman beauty and endurance. Have you ever heard her speak? No? That's what I mean..."
"And after your 'expedition,' she started talking again. An interesting 'coincidence,' isn't it?"
"Tell me, what happened there..."