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Having someone hyper aware of your every action isn’t fucking fun at all.

When I said Elder was stalking me before? I said it cuz I thought it was funny. This? What it’s doing right now? Is not funny. I want some damn privacy.

The asshole is literally breathing down my neck. The second after it said it would be keeping an eye on me i felt more than creeped out but I never expected for it to instruct every tree still alive and around my territory to connect to the new mycorrhizal network.

How’d I find out? The fucking meddlers are sending nutrients every now and again.

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Okay so it’s actually a nice thing that they’re doing but the fact is it’s quite obvious they were instructed to keep an eye on my behavior and report to Elder.

I shouldn’t have ever told elder what I was doing. I just wanted to get its opinion, see if I could do something nice, you know? Instead I have what feels like vultures circling around me waiting until I fuck up. It’s so unfair.

I mean I personally haven’t done anything unacceptable but just cuz most if not all my kind were heartless fuckheads doesn’t mean I am. I haven’t done nothing except good work since I got here.

Such bullshit.

After elder told me it would turbo stalk me I broke communication with it and wanted to focus and work on my chem mushrooms but then I realized elder would be upset if I took something without asking it first.

And I don’t really want to talk to it right now.

So instead I work on trying to find more lichen colonies. More nutrients for the bank I’m still working on could never hurt.

Through it all I couldn’t help but feel watched and stalked.