Chapter 107

Was the being I talked to another type of mushroom? Was it a plant? And the truly bizarre but potentially paramount question: was this thing an animal?

Everything so far has been mostly familiar to things back on earth. There are plants and animals, there’s a day and night cycle, there are even other mushrooms and fungi.

But that’s just the thing, If a mushroom that feels pain was an actual species here then anything was possible. I can’t make any assumptions about this new place Ive found myself in.

So while asking if the entity I talked to was really an animal sounded like a bit of an out-there question it was still a valid and important question to ask.

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One I’ll gladly put on the list of questions when the thing deigns to talk to me again… or I contact it.

But… truth be told I wasn’t exactly jazzed about making contact. I mean duh who would want to talk to an asshole? But even beyond that, contacting it… meant I’ll actually get some answers. Answers about everything.

And that … was terrifying.

This feeling of being on the precipice of finally discovering where and what this place actually is, was nerve wracking. But I think what I was feeling exceeded even that. And I remember feeling this exact same way when I tried and failed to connect to any tree root to see if I could find out if they were sapient or not.

I was afraid.

I was afraid that if I got those answers…

I would finally have to confront the fact this was all real. That I wasn’t imagining things.

That I wasn’t really just stuck in a coma vividly living a life as a small pitiful mushroom.