The Chameleon Tree
coodava domestica

Found throughout the Terra, wherever Mortals gather and thrive

On the humdrums of days, the brown surfaces of leaf of Chameleon show themselves humble and quiet, keeping harmony with mortals as they plod and labor in the lived life of the multitudinous thorps and dorfs and kraals of our spreading Terra. However, when the days turn joyful, when Mortals sing in rhapsody or dance in merriment, then do the leaves unfold their lusty sparkle and shimmer, dazzling the celebrants, causing their joy to increase and multiply. "It has always been so," explains Yasmina, venerable Seer of Dara, "that the tree knows our hears and our hearts live in the tree. It is all one," she intones, the tree is ourselves and we are the tree. How can it be otherwise?" And the people clap and laugh in their togethering and they answer and repeat from deep in their throat voices: "it cannot be otherwise for it is so and its not otherwise."