ff-world", which I don''t understand. You have some explaining to do, sir."


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    leep for most of it but ended up on the strike force to put him to sleep. We only tapped him on this random backwater planet because it was the only place where he wouldn''t cause trouble.


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    ***


    You met up on that distant root, Sero''s landing creating a massive splintery crater in which he stood nonchalantly. He twiddles with something that is on his thumb, a shiny ring of some material that you don''t know the name of. You alight on the root in front of him looking around at the destruction that he seems oblivious to.


    "Just a little more! We''re almost to the thing that I want to show you! I hope you like it." He begins to walk away.


    You follow, suddenly even more curious.


    It only takes a few more minutes of walking before Sero holds out his hand for you to stop.


    "Shh-hh-hh, hold on," He whispers, motioning for your to crouch down on the root''s mossy carpet. Suddenly, you hear a cry, a beautiful, sonorous, avian cry. And there, up above, from the towering crest of the winding root, a gargantuan bird swoops downward. An Aso''une''aawn.


    "Literally perfect!" Sero whispers excitedly as the sacred bird lifts up above the cloud layer, disappearing into the white, "Alright, you need to be super quiet, or else the mom or dad comes back and we have to leave."


    "What are we doing--?" you begin to ask, but Sero pulls you along. He begins climbing the root, motioning for you to do the same. Climbing the root is not difficult, the moss giving handholds and the crest''s slope being not too extreme, you reach the top of the root.


    There, on top of the root, sits a massive nest of branches. Not twigs, branches.


    Sero puts his finger to his lips, quieting you. He''s grinning ear to ear.


    There, inside the titanic nest, are baby Aso''une''aawn.