This is the worst.
Well, it isnt that bad, i could still be in that limbo of feeling-not-feeling, but-,
oh shut up, this is horrible in a whole other way.
I wanna move.
Move about, feel the leaves that have fallen, feel the dew on the blades of grass, feel the creepy crawling creatures climbing, whatever!
But if i move...
will i still be found?
That girl...
i know its a girl since her hands were so small.
I think.
It might just be a child in general, but whatever!
If i move, she, he, she might not find me.
...i have yet to think about what will happen once she does find me.
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I just want to feel her warmth.
...
that sounds really wierd and i didnt mean for it to come off in that way.
But this boredom is really killing me.
Whats worse, being able to do nothing or being able to do something and still doing nothing?
Im still expanding underground, by the bye.
Not that thats any important.
I felt a few tree-roots.
Some tried to fight me, others made an alliance with me.
I dont know how or why i remember it, but i think the ladder was called a mycorrhiza or something.
The former made me a parasite.
Well, its their fault for rejecting my advances, and...
...
that sounds wierd as well.
Goddamnit.
Maybe im just wierd in general?
No, that cant be.
Anyhow.
Thanks to these symbioses, ive succesfully grown, well, large.
How large?
No idea.
My mind doesnt feel streched, and instead i feel a kind of relieving fullne-,
what was that?
...
there it was again.
Is there something...
sniffing my arm?
Oh lord, no.
I can feel a heavy thumping up above.
Its not the little girl.
What is this?
This is scary.
I dont like this.
The thumping draws closer.
I feel like shivering.
Dont touch my-,
it sniffed it.
It totally did.
Oh, god.
Its sniffing my arm.
It has a heavy, moist breath.
Di-,
did it just lick me?
Its tounge was like... like sandpaper.
Please dont do it aga-,
it did again.
Dont eat me.
Please.
I dont think im edible.
I think im a fungus.
Oh, god, do cats eat fungi?
This is a cat, right?
Its too big to be one, though.
Mountain-lion?
Lynx?
Do i care?
No, as long as i dont die, i dont care in the least.
It keeps licking.
Stop.
Please.