[It's so damn cute. I get cavities from all of it. Also man I went down the rabbit hole on the GW2 wiki while looking at pics of the pale tree and THIS is freaking awesome.]

Nice to manage to catch Aurus a little, even if only a fraction of what the sylvari had managed to do to him, so far. When their hands brushed it sent a spark down through Charles, briefly closing his eyes until he chose to shift his finger, just enough, to intwine their pinkies together. Only a moment, a heartbeat, before he released it, but it spoke volumes. His hand stayed nearby, bumping occasionally as they walked along this path.

"Do you and your people believe that the Tree is alive?" Charles asked curiously, his eyes lifting up to the pale leaves high above them. It was beautiful, even what he could see of it here, like a natural skyscraper going endlessly up into the sky, but as ghostly and ethereal as sheets blowing in the wind. There was nothing like this on Earth, nothing that could be even properly compared. Not that he believed Earth any less incredible, for there were things he believed would blow Aurus' mind, yet this was doing the same for him.

Then, even more quietly, "...what does it feel like to touch it?"