Michael and/or Seal, spawn on a mermaid and a human man, happily sunning himself on the shore of Bouyan island, the waves washing over his bare, dolphin like skin as he waits for Moira and her siblings to return home, his belly full of fish. He's fairly certain the island is deserted.
"I suppose, but if I came out of the tree now, it's for a reason. I don't really wake up unless I desperately need to protect things. So, thinking about it, it's kind of like fate that I woke up and found you now."
Ariadne can be a bit of a spacey hippie, believing in fate and destiny, and sometimes talking to trees, bugs, animals and the like. She suddenly snaps back to attention.
"So, do many more people like you live on the island?"
"Are they all Miracle's, like you?" She takes another crunch of her apple. "Will they be worried about you? I am technically a stranger I suppose."
"Yeah, they're Miracles. Well, Hannah's a robot, it's complicated. And I don't think so. Weird people just turn up sometimes."
"Complicated is cool. Just don't want to scare anyone, I'm here to make friends."
She leans back and the leaves grow upwards to meet her as a very comfortable backrest.
"You bring someone home, Moira?" says the boy hovering over them. He looks like he could be one of Moira's brothers, and he's about as dressed as the others. Aside from the high collared cape.
"Hi there! I'm Ariadne! Great Oak is actually my home, and I presume you are one of Moira's brothers?"
She's unphased by the lack of clothes, or the cape. She's not really hip on human stuff so she assumes its normal.
"Very cool. Pleased to meet you Stanislaw Sokolov. I am Ariadne Banphrionsa, Hamadryad of the Great Oak, protector of the plant life on our fair island."
"I assume you are a human Miracle like these two? So I'm a plant with a face is the easy way to explain it, and my assumption is, you all live here, making it yours, but also part of me. Without the island, I would cease to exist. Trees can drown, oddly enough. Especially the oak kind."
"Yup. But I've been asleep within the Great Oak for a very long time."
She laughs at the boy.
"You are very egocentric to think a tree would spend its days watching him go to the bathroom. But no, I've been fast asleep for a very long time, I didn't even know anyone inhabited the island until I stumbled upon Seal in the... Water." She's still stumbling over the new word but getting better.
"Yes, very, otherwise I'm sure there's images I would be wishing to scrub from my brain. Just plant thoughts, like 'it's particularly sunny out, tastes nice' and the like."
A bird lands on a nearby branch, plucks the apple core from her hands and flies off to spread the seeds and do it's own business.
"She is very pretty, the air around here is very good and clean. Probably very good for Us."
This excites Ariadne quite a bit.
"Really? Is that your thing? Birds? I really really like birds!"
"Of course they do! Who would dare to disobey the great Empress Moira!"