Chrysalis

Chapter 757

[Hmmmmmmmmm] the big tree blinks at me slowly a few times, as if surprised that I still exist rather than focusing on the question that I asked it.

I wait patiently whilst he inspects me but my patience is quickly running by the time he finally gets around to talking again.

[You look different,] he observes.

[Obviously, I've evolved!] I explode at him. [Can you explain to me why your plant-based parent is sprouting willy-nilly and soaking up gross mana around the place?! Do I have to ask every question three times or something?!]

He blinks.

[No.] He says finally.

I take a breath.

[So why aren't you answering my question then?] I grate out.

He looks at me with an almost palpable sense of pity.

[Because mother finds it amusing and so won't let me answer.]

The leaves and flowers that sprout from every surface around us seem to wriggle with amused joy and I slump where I stand.

[This might not be diplomatic of me, Mr Grove Keeper, but your mother is a massive pain in the thorax. Is she always like this?]

The tree nods in understanding.

we know. I ask that you be

and the

no more, but I think I might be able to answer your question

and the

explain a little about mother, which may be why she is reluctant that I share, but I do not see

branch? I can get behind

tree-man smiles wide, the bark on his

roots can sniff out changes from quite a long range, and her roots spread wide. When you stumbled into a tertiary root in this area, she began to expand her network in this area, this enabled her to detect the mana that you spoke

And that massive thing I ran into was a tertiary? So it branched from a secondary that branched from the primary? How big is the

The Grove Keeper chuckles.

question, I will not reveal much other than to say that it is likely less than you think. Our Mother

bushes shiver in an accusatory fashion and the Grove Keeper once

says to both me and

I can tell they aren't

what kind it is, that your mother finds so attractive that she would sprout up in our

overmuch. Suffice to say, Mother is an expert when it comes

branches around us

she finds it delicious,] the Grove

I raise an antenna.

[Delicious?]

[Yes,] he nods.

the Mother Tree doesn't need

[This is true.]

I don't see is nearly as many Bruan'chii. There are a few here and there, tending to the plants, engaged in what

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