Chapter 45

The animal too was doomed if it didn’t get its ass into gear and run away. It was still there conscious im assuming and possibly drinking the water I left it but it hasn’t moved since its first attempt.

Has it given up? Resigned to being burned alive?

I don’t know how long its been running and how fast its been running. Hell I don’t know if it was doing alright psychologically.

I know for a fact animals can get traumatized. I spent a year volunteering at an animal shelter, my therapist suggested I do so after my dog passed. “Helping others in need is sometimes easier than helping ourselves and along the way you’ll start feeling a bit better,” she said. its basically a coping mechanism but sometimes coping is all one can do.

During my time there I realized animals can be just as traumatized as humans. The loss of their previous owner, the loss of its siblings, the loss of its children.

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My point is this animal could be going through much the same. Maybe it lost its family. Its certainly lost its home. After its initial struggle to stand up, it must have decided to just give up.

Seeing as I was feeling much the same. I decided to once again take my therapist’s advice, I had to keep trying to save both it and my pet plant. Attempting to do something is always better than not trying at all.

So I gave it another think.

My primary goal is to stop the fire from spreading further into my territory. The main resource I have in order to stop it is water. What I was attempting to do was have my mushrooms’ spores carry water to a destination further than its immediate surroundings.

Like I’ve said filling them too much and they just fall, too little and they’re basically fodder for the fire. That last part though, filling them with minor amounts of water, was just a theory it just sounded like it wouldn’t work. Ive clearly never faced a problem quiet like this before, so who was I to say it wouldn’t work?

Given a direction of where to start, I began wondering where I should place the mushroom. Clearly somewhere near the border of the fire, which was still encroaching bit by bit inwards. It was slowed down by efforts to deliver more and more water to the affected areas.

I had to be smart about my placement of it. Too near and the mushroom will burn before it even has a chance to grow its spores. Too far and my efforts to spread the barely water filled spores won’t have any affect.

I still had my doubts about this but what other option did I have?