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 patient

leaves rustle angrily and the Grove

will say no more, but I think I might be able

to stillness and the giant tree dips his

about mother, which may be why she is reluctant that I share, but I do not see the harm in a little truth. It is an extension of trust between

branch? I can get

wide, the

her 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

of the planet does your mother have roots through? And that massive thing I ran into was a tertiary?

The Grove Keeper chuckles.

Tree is… vast. I will not bother attempting to describe it to you. As for your other question, I will not reveal much other than to say that it is likely less than you think. Our Mother is not a normal tree, but rather a monstrous tree, thus she does not follow the same set of rules you might think she does. To grow her network here,

shiver in an accusatory fashion and the Grove Keeper

branch,] he says to

settle again but I can tell they

this particular brand of mana, I don't even know what kind it is, that your mother finds so attractive that she would

an

around us

delicious,] the Grove Keeper

I raise an antenna.

[Delicious?]

[Yes,] he nods.

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

[This is true.]

and vibrant as what I saw near the Colony during the siege, if not more so. What I don't see is nearly as many Bruan'chii. There are a few here and there, tending to the plants, engaged in what appear to be lively conversations with each other, but I expected

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