Role

Chapter 2

A few days later Tlel'sra went to the elder of the village and asked about the
Tree of Life to which the elder sighed and said I suppose you are old enough
to know the truth.

You know our people always vanish into swamps with our scales. Saurians have
different camoflauge depending on where they are meant to be. We named you
Tlel, Tree, and Sra, Life, after Tree of Life. It is one plant that is
poisonous to us within Swamps, but 1000 insects and creatures and plant live
at existance of it, including us. You know swamps have two seasons Sra and
Weh, Wet and Dry. When heat lightning comes during Season of Weh and lights
swamp gas and jungle burns the Tlel'sras bark turns white and all its
poisonous thorns turn to bright red flowers which make a fruit that sustains
swamp till Sra fills it once more with life. This is only time Tlel'sra is
edible is its fruit. Your camoflauge is meant for Weh when swamp burns and
white bark fireblossoms come. You exist with one claw in Weh and one claw in
Sra. Tree of Life seems rare until everything burns then that is all you see.
You remind them of Weh it makes everyone uncomfortable.

This one sees is all Tlel'sra says in reply. That night he set off from the
village deep into the untamed swamp seeking a Tree of Life his name sake.
Hoping to commune with it to find some answers or peace. He finally found
one at the northern edges of the swamp. He sat beneath the small tree its
strange spindly branches dense and filled with thorns. Days he sat beneath it
slowing his bodily function as only reptiles can, only breathing once every
few minutes. At first he noticed only a few insects, but as he became a part
of the landscape it came alive.