[can't believe i named this cat bianca and then immediately found out about the pjo one SORRY GUYS,

anyway, Ryan listens attentively to all of that, though the last bit definitely catches his attention more than the rest.]

The town's happy with you...? As in it literally has some kind of mind of its own, or is this some kind of correlation thing? Same thing with the forest, actually.

[The idea of a place with some kind of sentience should, by all rights, be concerning-- but he just sounds absolutely fascinated.]