Talyra considered this with the genuine interest of someone who had researched the topic and was prioritizing the key points.
"Druids don't separate emotional connection from elemental connection." She said, "For a standard elemental practitioner, the emotional state affects the output level, but the connection itself is stable."
"For a druid, the connection and the emotion are the same channel."
"Which means," Rex said.
"Which means that when she feels something for someone, her environment responds to it," Talyra said. "She can't fully control the response."
"She can moderate it. She can delay it. But it happens."
Rex frowned as he thought about what such a bond would mean. "So, if she's feeling a lot of emotions, the natural world around her could act in ways that are hard to predict, which could make her feelings stronger or even cause chaos."
"Yeah, sort of..." Talyra raised her thumb.
"I see... so..." Rex said, "...the flowers from this morning."
