Chapter 120

I check in on the pain mushroom and find myself pleasantly surprised, the mushroom isn’t in pain anymore. What’s more the mushroom has grown a little bigger than it originally was when I found it. It might be cruel to stop giving it nutrients when it’s been so dependent on me, but even mothers eventually stop breast feeding their babies at some point.

Not that I consider myself a parent to the thing of course, hell it’s probably even older than I am.

I’ll have to ask elder tomorrow if it’s ever run into these things.

The area around the pain mushroom is still absolutely demolished but I have been making a difference, if only just a little.

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I wonder if the fire took out the elder tree in this area, repairing its colony and area seems like something it was most likely it was in charge of.

I’ll ask elder.

It seems like everything I do now has to be double checked by elder now…

And I don’t know how to feel about it. On the one hand it makes sense for me to confirm things with elder. It’s been here the longest and it most likely knows most things about this place. But on the other hand?

I don’t want to be too dependent on it. What if another fire comes through and it takes elder out before I can snuff it out?

I’ll be all alone again.

But something my therapist says strikes out at me though: “don’t let the grief of tomorrow effect the happiness of today.”

And that’s exactly what I’m doing now.

I mentally shake myself and focus on restoring the pain mushroom’s area.