Green Sprout × Bright Flame

Relationship · feeding cycle, Wood feeds Fire (Green Sprout hands Bright Flame the kindling). In five-element pairing, feeding means one lends momentum to the next, not that one ranks above the other.

Portrait · one of the smoothest matches. Green Sprout supplies direction and possibility, Bright Flame lights it and burns it into warmth, one handling "where to grow" and the other "letting people see it." Wood passes a stick and Fire catches; the brighter Fire burns, the more Wood feels the path it laid wasn't wasted.

Feeding view (Wood to Fire) · what they give is direction and fuel, and the real value is handing the other's heat a place to burn. They also burn out easily by feeding the fire until they're empty, with the other's light as their only sense of achievement, so they keep some kindling back for themselves.

Fed view (Fire to Wood) · what they borrow is the other's planning, sparing them the cold-start anxiety over direction. They don't take the other's "I've got you" for granted, and ask once what the other wants to grow into.

How they work · (1) Wood checks on a schedule whether it still has fuel, instead of only stoking the fire. (2) Fire reports back "here's how far I burned the path you laid," so Wood sees the echo. (3) sort together what Fire actually wants to burn from what Wood laid out on its own wishful thinking.

Reverse check · in this bond, when did Wood last keep kindling for itself?

A mirror, not a prophecy. It reflects you as you are right now. How you walk is still yours to choose.