“Meaning…” You take a moment to think about her words. “Your master had you spend time inside the Tree of Earth and shaped his ritual around your nature as a monster. Your druidic abilities are rooted in the element of earth; your body, in turn, has become aligned with insects as a whole because of this connection?”

The little chirp of Seyraphal antennas sounds like a ring of victory. ''You'll understand once you see my shapeshifting. I can also consume animals and parts of trees to absorb information from their residual souls. However, parsing this information is incredibly difficult because of the difference in perspectives with the human mind.''

''Cats and dogs are likely easier to understand due to their connection with us.'' Seyraphal nods. ''You don't have any duties since there's no community of druids?''

''No, nothing.'' Her fingers gently tap on her empty teacup as she thinks, prompting you to fill it. ''My master duty with the sprouts was his alone, I suppose I'm trying to finish his obligation out of loyalty. He was... a bit hard to live with, but he helped me so much.''

Seyraphal paused for another moment, gathering her thoughts. ''The natural world is a beautiful thing worth preserving; it is not, however, sacred or more precious than human lives.''

That is the kind of opinion you'd expect of rangers or hunters, but a druid?

''Diseases come from nature.'' Seyraphal continues. ''I've seen a species of bugs kill hundreds of trees by burrowing into their trunks to sap their very vitality, a large community of deer deep in the ancestral forest of the Wildlands completely wiped out by rabid wolves, diseases ravaging healthy bunnies... I think, like the relationship between mankind and Mamonos, there's a harmony to be found between civilization and nature itself. After all, if it weren't for Augustine's medicine, I'd be wishing for death.''
A large community of deer is an interesting way to describe a herd.

''I'd like to ask about Corruption.'' You get up to make some more tea as you change the topic. ''I'm afraid to be a hopeless layman in my knowledge, is it a natural force?''

''As natural as souls are.'' Seyraphal stays silent as you make the last batch of tea, the gentle echoes of Shigeko cutting the tree give you a strange sense of peace.

''Corruption is a strange thing.'' Seyraphal begins as you sit next to her again. ''It allowed Demons Lords of the past to gain an instinctive authority toward the majority of monsters: species with inherent magical prowess or genuine sentience were the only ones who could resist this call.''

''But our current Lord rejected this power and granted all species of monsters genuine sentience.'' While she may be mankind's enemy, a noble heart like this deserves praise. You say while finishing making tea.