A Fateful Collision?

Who: Jessie Alpha, The Big Pink Tree
Where: An Unknown Corridor on the Blue Dwarf
When: Frinesturday
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<<SNIP>>
Jessie ran down the deserted corridors, avoiding people as much as
possible. She shouldn't have treated Chrizla like that, it must have
been a huge shock to find out that his brother had survived the
Hymenoptera attack only to be killed a few weeks later, but her nerves
were stretched almost to breaking point. A few days ago she'd worked
out that Sandra would almost certainly want to silence her, and any
day a hired assassin - or worse, Sandra herself - would turn up to
finish the job begun over a year ago.
However, Jessie had more immediate things to worry about, as she
discovered when the a panicked Tree ran over her.
<<END SNIP>>
The Tree had a remarkable talent for remaining panicked once something
had scared it. It had originally started running from Tara, who had
(somewhat sensibly) given up after a short time. The Tree, on the
other hand, had failed to realise this and had continued running.
For an hour.
Colliding with Jessie did nothing to calm it down, but did manage to
stop it running/bouncing along like a mad thing.
"Aargh!" Jessie yelled as she was bowled over by a large amount of
pink foliage moving at speed. The Tree stumbled and fell over its own
roots, crashing into the wall.
*RUSTLE!* it managed, worriedly.
"Watch where you're going!" said Jessie irritably, annoyed at having
her train of thought so rudely interrupted.
*Rustle...*
"What? I can't understand you," said Jessie, picking herself up and
brushing some pink twigs from her hair. The Tree rocked back and
forth for a second before managing to right itself.
*Rustle-rustle!* it said, a few loose leaves spiralling to the floor.
Jessie looked at it and sighed.
"I don't speak tree," she reiterated, but the Big Pink Tree seemed to
either not understand or, possibly more likely, not care. It bounced
slowly over to her and did a good job of giving the impression of
staring at her curiously. Jessie stared back.
"What?" she asked.
*Rustle!* explained the Tree. Then, seeing that this did little to
remove the look of puzzlement on her face, it slowly held up two
identical branches in front of Jessie.
*Rustle,* it said, pointing first at one of the identical branches,
then at Jessie. Pointing at the other branch, it murmured, *Rustle?*,
and made a big show of looking around for something missing.
Then it leaned backwards and 'stared' at Jessie again, apparently
waiting to see if she managed to make any sense out of this.
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OOC: Tag Jessie. And it's okay if it doesn't make any sense - it's
the Tree, it's meant to be confusing. ;)
- Chris (JHXMT)