Chibi

Mara… look.

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Mara

What is it?

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Chibi

Right there.

In the dirt.

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Mara

It’s just a little plant.

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Chibi

It wasn’t there yesterday.

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(Mara kneels beside him, brushing a little soil away with her fingers.)

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Mara

You’re right.

The ground cracked.

See the line?

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Chibi

Something pushed its way out.

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Mara

That’s what plants do.

Seeds wake up when spring comes.

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Chibi

They don’t wake up nicely.

They break things.

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Mara

Break things?

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Chibi

The seed breaks open.

Then the sprout breaks the soil.

Sometimes it even pushes small stones aside.

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Mara

I never thought about it that way.

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Chibi

People only look at the flowers later.

When everything looks soft and pretty.

But the beginning…

The beginning is messy.

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Mara

Because something has to push.

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Chibi

Exactly.

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(They watch the small green sprout move slightly in the breeze.)

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Mara

Do you think the earth feels different in spring?

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It feels busy.

Like everything underneath is moving.

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Mara

Seeds?

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Chibi

Seeds.

Roots.

Worms.

Insects.

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Mara

The whole ground waking up.

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Chibi

Yes.

But waking up doesn’t happen all at once.

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Mara

No?

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Chibi

Spring starts with very small things.

One plant.

One bird.

One warm day.

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Mara

And then more things follow.

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Chibi

Exactly.

That’s the rule.

The smallest things wake first.

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Mara

Like this little sprout.

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Chibi

Yes.

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(He gently touches the leaf.)

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Chibi

But the earth has been around for a very long time.

Long before people.

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Mara

That’s what Caelwyn says.

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Chibi

And if the earth is that old…

then it has buried a lot of things.

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Mara

Seeds?

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Chibi

Seeds.

And other things.

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Mara

You think they could wake up too?

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Chibi

Maybe.

But probably not all at once.

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Mara

Why not?

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Chibi

Because spring never begins with something big.

It always starts with something small.

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Mara

Like this.

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(She points at the tiny green sprout in the dirt.)

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Chibi

Yes.

One small thing pushing through the ground.

And once that happens…

the rest of the world slowly begins to follow.

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