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I greatly admire her skills, her innovative ideas, her scientific mindset yet her compassionate heart, I could go on. There is no other Elemental like Cecilia, and there cannot be. What am I, some pathetic imitation?
Bea has a brilliant mind, yet she is plagued with self-doubt. I wish she would be less harsh on herself: she need not apply her Mohs hardness to her self-reflection. She's not me, and she never will be. That's not a flaw. She still has an important role to play.
Nettie's the kind of person I can sit in the forest with for hours, chatting away about plant cell wall composition and photosynthesis and transport proteins. And then not talk at all for hours just to take in the breeze and the birdsong.
Bea's a great listener. Not only does she let me talk on and on about protein folding, or gardening, or cryogenics, or meteorology, or dwarf planets, but she seems genuinely interested and not like she's just putting up with me.
Every June 30th we go on a birthday nature walk together, and we're just able to chat about plants and animals and fungi and microbes and life in general. Yes, I'm jealous of her biology knowledge, which far surpasses mine. She's so much more important in life, you know? Like, she's the center of chlorophyll and I'm just some cell wall strengthener.
And we walk and talk and I run off and shout "Look at those poppies!" and Bea runs to catch up. And then I yell "Check out this bug!" and Bea freaks out. Good times.