Chapter 1

Ok. So, I'm fairly certain I have reincarnated. With my memories more or less intact. It's the only thing that I can think of that would even remotely fit the facts. Or rather the fact, singular.

I'm a seed. Yep, it's pretty much confirmed at this point. I think I have a fairly good handle on my available senses now, and pending an extremely detailed, realistic and constant hallucination (why not?), I appear to be a fairly flat, oval seed.

In fact I'm already starting to grow a root, so I suppose I could be called a sprout now.

I'm not all that sure about my size, but considering what little I can feel and understand about my insides (what insides? You're a seed!), and comparing myself to some of the water beads around me …. I would guess I'm about the size of a large ant. That is a little over a centimeter in case you're wondering.

As to how exactly I can feel my body, or the water, or for that matter how I think or remember. I have no idea.

I suppose that if I have reincarnated, then I have a soul and that can do the whole nervous system thing instead of the brain. (Well that's convenient.)

Still new discoveries regarding souls and biology (when did that come into play) aside, this is REALLY boring.

Hmm. I wonder if I can use my soul or whatever to interact with things …

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So it's been a few days (how can you tell?) and I have made a couple of very important discoveries.

First of all. I can move things! Yay! (Thats convenient.)

Only small things though. Like really small. I mean seriously I'm pretty sure a cell is the biggest thing I can move, which is problematic, cause a cell is the smallest thing I can sense, or at least distinguish. And even that is stretching it.

Second. I can move! (Really!?)

Ok, so I can't really move, but I can control how I grow a bit. So that's something. (Oh.)

Basically, instead of moving things individually I kind of … direct the general flow. Don't ask me how it works, but by concentrating the flow of what I suppose are nutrients to one side of my root, that side grows quicker and the root turns.

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It's exhausting and slow, but I managed to reach a pretty big water bead so thats good.

Ah! Also, I'm starting to grow what I assume will become my first leaves.

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I'm BORED!

Lets see now. It's been about a month now. More accurately 27 days since my first leaves got to the surface.

I still can't see of course, but I can feel the sun and I'm somewhat aware of the surrounding plants. I figure thats mostly due to chemical signals, rather than mysterious soul powers though.

Also, photosynthesis is awesome!

I'm used to it now, but the first day was rather exhilarating. With that and all the energy I absorbed from the sun, I think I grew almost 3 cm. The growth slowed down after that though. I don't have anything to compare myself to, but I think I amount to a little over 10 cm of plant matter right now.

I have also figured out how to control things other than the direction of my growth. For example, new leaves in different shapes and how big my roots are.

Speaking of which, I have started to grow a web of extremely thin roots. I'm not entirely sure how my species was originally supposed to grow, but I think the system I set up is similar to what most fungi do. If I find something of interest like food or water, then I make the shortest route from it to my bigger let the rest of the surrounding roots wither. It makes for a very efficient delivery system and because most of the roots are so thin, I can advance my map at a rate of almost half a meter per day.

Just to be clear, I only started this two days ago, and because I'm growing in almost every direction, I will have to slow down quite a bit, unless I want to exhaust myself.

Now the problem is, that while all this is interesting, it only took up about three days of the month. And as interesting as counting days is … Thank god I'm used to doing nothing or I'd be mad by now. I mean I don't even sleep! The closest I can get to it is just not thinking and 'staring' into the nothingness. Oh well …  I should get back to that.

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