Chapter 48

For a wonder it worked.

The fire wasn’t as spreading as quickly as before. All the spore I released were actually helping. Now I just had to wait and hope the fire went out or the wind encouraged it to go in a different direction before it hit the animal and buttons.

My territory was a bit expansive. Most of it consisted of the sensory mycelium with the occasional mushroom here and there. Before I was aware of the fire I even managed to connect the mycelium with the one I grew around buttons.

buttons was far, far out because I wanted to contact a tree but chickened out and used the fact that some trees kill anything it’s root touches and I didn’t want anything in my immediate area.

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It was definitely a concern but one I could easily avoided by following the mycorrhizal roots back to their original trees. It stood to reason those trees wouldn’t harm me if it clearly connected to the mycorrhizal roots.

Anyways the point is buttons was maybe a mile or two apart from the rest of me.

Most of my assets and most of my attention where devoted to my immediate surroundings so I didn’t really disperse that much around buttons.

A small mycelium network and now the ring of mushrooms I was growing. The plan was, was that once I figured out how to release water like a sprinkler I would do that there and drench the plant so that it couldn’t be caught on fire. But while I was releasing water through the network around button I would now also do the same as I was doing back in my territory releasing the minimally water filled spores.

Ugh thats a mouthful, lets just call them mist spores.

It was a bitch to deliver all this water all the way here though. I hope to in the future I find a water source near here. cuz its like drinking water from a really long straw.

Its exhausting.