Owanrin Obara (Monticue Connally)
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My name is Monticue.
I'm a healer and writer living in Denver.
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Shadow Walker
I wish this was a work of fiction but that which my strange senses pick up have always been constant and repeatable. My unique senses don’t change with my imagination or how I feel. I can’t turn these senses off and on so that I can enjoy the pleasant parts and let go of the rest. No. The blessings and the curses all come wrapped together in the darkest wrapping paper. I have an ability. A strange one as mysterious as the dark that ignites it. An old sense that humans lost use for long ago. I am living proof that stories of tree nymphs and the fairy folk don’t spawn from the human imagination but rather an ancient way of seeing with eyes that are no longer accessible. I am the exception. In the night I can see them all as clear as day. Spirits. The kinds attached to tree branches and plant roots and even more strangely the spirits of various inanimate objects.
By Owanrin Obara (Monticue Connally)5 years ago in Futurism
Herbarium
The botanists at the Botanic Gardens had been annoyed with me for months. Any plant I came across that looked interesting, I’d bring to them asking what it was. It didn’t take them long to ID the plants I brought them but they weren’t very welcoming to my presence. I started showing up once a week, and soon once a week became twice a week. The first plant they ever identified for me was a clipping from a bush growing in my front yard called “Rue”. They told me that the scientific name was Ruta graveolens and that at one time it was considered medicinal. I found out after doing some research that the plant had a gentle antispasmodic function and could ease cramping and spasms in muscles. I found this to be incredibly fascinating. I never looked at plants the same way after that. My mind concluded that all of the plants in my area were worth investigating. I decided to gather wild weeds regularly to have them identified by the experts.
By Owanrin Obara (Monticue Connally)5 years ago in Wander
