When Goldenscale opened her eyes and looked at Talia, her eyes had turned into a bright spring green.  "Oh, poo." she said.  She sighed and disconnected from the tree.  Walking inside with impatience, she went to the meeting.

"Good mornig Goldenscale. Please take your place. After the first three, you'll be free to leave," the council member in the middle of the group saidgesturing to the bright yellow cushion sitting near him, "This first issue will be decided by your vote. The issue is wether or not to allow the school system access to a larger variety of food. On one hand they're doing fine with what they have now, but giving a larger variety will increase the overall morality of those in it while the hunters and foragers will have to work harder than they already do."

She took her seat.  "I vote for the larger variety of food.  I know how to access this food without overworking our foragers and hunters." she said.

"That is settled then. It will go into effect on next week's supply list. That'll give us enough time to figure out how it will be done. Now the to next issue," he said stamping a set of papers and bringing out another set, "This one was put in by Mayumi  before the incedent with Frost. Her request is to reconsider our decision to deny her a temporary pass to leave the cave. Our decision still stands, but you seem to know her more personaly than the rest of us. What is you take on the issue?"

"I think that Mayumi should have her request granted.  It has been hard for her not to have time to think about her personal problems.  Even we need time to think things over when to going gets tough.  Having to help others day and night becomes stressing, and I know how that feels.  It would do her good to go out of the cave for a while.  I could fill in for her while she is gone so she doesn't have to worry while she is away.  It wouldn't be that hard." she said absentmindedly.  She still put thought into her words, but her mind was on other things.

"We know for sure that she doesn't work day in and day out. Her scedule gives her two days of rest," he said pulling out a work scedule detailing the hours of all the major workers and handing it to Goldenscale, "She does more than heal wounds. Her job is to provide help for whatever alchemy can provide for. That was the job she perposed when she came here. What we need is a good reason to give her the pass and lift the her restrictions to the cave."

"What reason do you have for keeping her here?  Just because it is a job she signed up for doesn't mean she can't leave the cave and escape the stress of working." she said.

"We have to take into concideration that she's the only one in the cave who knows how to make the potions and poison that are used daily. She's also the only one here that can make a cure for just about anything the might infect the general public. We understand that she needs extra time to rest and relax from time to time, we all do, but what she's wanting will leave us without hunting and medical supplies for about a week," he said taking a drink of water, "She's also under watch for suspition of trying to overthrow the system. If she is to get the pass, she will need a good enough reason to recieve it. She refuses to tell us what she plans to do with it."

"Well, I can tell you right now, her sorrows came with the loss of a life, much like how I acted yesterday.  She wants to be able to remember the days way back then when she was always happy and didn't know the sorrows of living her life now.  Can she not do that?  By denying her this, you are telling her to forget what's most important to her.  How would you feel if you had to forget about your child, or mate, or a loved one?  You probably wouldn't do it and would do all you could to remember them.  Memories are how we still live, even after death.  We would be loosing a part of ourselves more if we would be asked to forget." she said, anger riling up in her.  "And anyways, as I said earlier, I could fill in for her.  I know countless other healing techniques than any creature I know.  Granted, I don't know how much she knows about healing, but I know how to heal just about any wound or ailment just from plants.  And that isn't even consider ring the healing techniques I know using magic.  I could probably even figure out what's in her potions if I tried..." she said.  She could rant all say if she wanted, but she just wanted to get back to the tree.

"We base our decisions on what we know. We know she has sorrows that control her actions, but know not what they are. We know nothing more about her than what we can gather from her requests and what little she says to us on a normal basis. We'll take your offer to take her place while she's gone, but we'll need proof of her actions when she returns," he said taking note of Goldenscale's building anger, "We'll have her come in this afternoon to pick up her pass. If you have any more points to bring up about it, we'll discus it then while she's here." "Now, to our last issue. It deals with you directly," he said stamping the form before pulling out a final set of papers, "Since you are now part of the council, you are entitled to have a home built here in the cave. We just need to know the location, size, and what utilities you want. If there's a function you'd like, we can do our best to get a room made for the task."

Goldenscale was surprised by the last issue.  "Well, now that I think about it, I don't know the answer.  But I do want to live someplace with plants in it, preferably a willow tree and an assortment of plants I'll plant later on.  I don't know where this will be, but I do want it to be able to house a full grown willow tree, several types of plants and a small pond able to hold me in it.  I would need to have gardening tools, a few jars, and a couple other objects I will need later on.  Don't know how large that would be, so I'd have to figure out how large of a home I'd need and tell you the details later on..." she said, her anger now fully gone.  "I'll give you the full details later."

"We could have it built right into the wall of the cave so that part of it was inside the cave and the other was outside. It'd take some time to dig out and properly support, but it is possible to build. Don't worry too much about it though," he said setting the papers down, "Since it will be your home, you have all the right to hold off till you know exactly how you want it. If you wish, you can leave now. The rest of the issues are dealing with event planning and other day to day problems."

"Alright, thank you." she said with a smile and a slight bow.  "I'll have the details in to you as soon as possible." she said before leaving back to Mayumi's cave to check on her and Frost.

sitting near the fireplace, Mayumi was heating a metal box with vents on top while humming one of her lullabies, not noticing Goldenscale enter.

Frost wakes to the sound of a song. He rubbs his head and looks around. "This is Mayumi's cave how did i get here?" He looks to the amulet around his neck and studies it slowly.