An answer to her persistent question, asked across a multitude of worlds, is not to be found in this meadow. The being speaking to her is a girl, she determines with this body's instincts-- at least two genders in this race, juvenile forms suggest offspring may grow quickly but perhaps not with full independence. She will hope to meet younger examples, as this one seems to be on the cusp of adulthood. Making theses cursory notes, the overo considers the word 'speck' and what it might mean to the stranger. Insignificance? Dust? Even in dust there are worlds.
“Specks? Dear creature, we are universes ourselves. There is such a thing as Nothing but I don't think you have seen it before, and we certainly are not it.”
A pause, she has tried to develop the skill of not saying more than what will make her seem strange. No small task when one is thrust into an unfamiliar culture without any prior exposure to it. She is perhaps unsuccessful today but this is a place where unexpected behavior appears the norm.
"You were not nothing before you came to exist and you will not be nothing when you are gone."
Ausra has been a mother, father, guardian, sibling, elder and mentor many times and there is an ageless authority in her otherwise gentle voice. She is not unsettled, she recognizes the bravado and mischief of youth. The words may serve to correct the child's thinking, to help her recognize her own power as a conscious being, and how incredible it is to have your energy gathered into the form of a living thing. The reply may all the more readily be disregarded as the ignorant chiding of another unaware adult. Ausra knows the dance.
The children she has raised in other lives have all been unique into themselves, but there seems to be a basic formula for being a juvenile regardless of your world, species, or origins.
The Traveler abandons her initial question. Others she has asked have given her enough answers to move on to further curiosities. As she speaks she turns her eyes toward the tree the younger being had phased through before they began to speak. Ausra needed to walk around the flora as it appears most every other lifeform on this world did.
"What are you? Besides a speck, as you say."
i've had dreams of you in places i've not seen
@renfri I wrote this on my phone, sorry if anything is weird