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.

is always like this, and we know. I ask that you be patient with her. She hasn't had the easiest life on this

and the Grove Keeper holds up his

more, but I think I might be able

return to stillness and the giant tree dips his head

may be why she is reluctant that I share, but I do not

branch? I

wide, the bark on

to swaying before he continues. [The Mother tree is very sensitive to mana, her roots can sniff out changes from quite

through? 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.

think. Our Mother is not a normal tree, but rather a monstrous tree, thus she does not

bushes shiver in an accusatory fashion and the Grove Keeper once again

says to

again but I can tell they

what kind it is, that your mother finds so attractive that

say, Mother is an expert when it comes to

around us

it delicious,] the

I raise an antenna.

[Delicious?]

[Yes,] he nods.

guessing the Mother Tree doesn't need water to survive, right? She

[This is true.]

not more so. What I don't see is nearly as many Bruan'chii. There are a few here and

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