By: Beth "Freesia" Tozier
I think about how we met, in the movies, had we become romantically involved, it would be called a “Meet Cute”, but for this, I would call it a “Meat Fruit” encounter.
It was their first event in the Realms. Feast of Chimeron; I had just finished having a discussion with Sir Lucas Harkon about the appropriate attire for the feast (I said Armor, he said a dress, we did not agree and he stormed off in a tiny fae huff as Harkons are generally do). I was at the Creathorne table, chugging down some water and grabbing some cheese when a figure emerges from the kitchen.
They have blue hair, antennae, and bright curious eyes and… wings! Pretty butterfly like wings. In their hands was a pretty impressive fruit sculpture. Their smile lights on me, and they head my way. I am not far, because Creathorne was always in the back (assigned so), away from the high table but close to the kitchen. This little bug creature looks at me as they approach, and in a high, singing voice proclaim “Fruit!” and then ask “Fruit?” Being In Character, I reply, “Meat”.
They look puzzled to the fruit and then back to me, and reply “No, it is most certainly fruit.”
I scoff a little and say “I see the fruit, but I want meat.”
Again, a puzzled look, “But, it is time for the fruit.”
“But Meat.”
“No, Fruit.”
“Yeah, okay…. but meat?”
“Nope” a shake of their blue hair “certainly Fruit.”
“Understood, how about meat.”
“Not until after fruit. Fruit?”
“Not a fan. Meat?”
“Fruit?”, they hold out the fruit sculpture.
Around and around we went for a few moments, until someone else came into the hall and, with a gesture of confusion, the little blue creature turned away from me muttering “Weird human” as I snatched up my sword, headed out of the hall saying “Weird bug.”
That was our “Meat Fruit” and the beginning of a decades long friendship no one could have predicted. That was when Janna came into my life, and it was a perfect Meat Fruit.
