Chapter 61

I can’t help but ask myself how desperate I really am for company that such a small act like the lichen actively taking the water from me gives me hope I’m not alone?

Its kinda sad to think about really. When I was human talking and hanging out with other people wasn’t exactly my idea of fun, but now that I find myself all alone…

I mean I have buttons and possibly jade if the little bugger is even alive and decides to stick around after the fire is gone but… it just isn’t the same.

I guess having the option of actually talking to someone completely stripped from me puts things into perspective.

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Ugh.

One tiny action by one damn lichen and its given me all this hope and so much more anguish. Fact is i need to come to terms with the reality that just because that thing actively takes the water I give it, doesn’t automatically make it intelligent or even sapient for that matter, plenty of flora and fungi have an active impact in the environment.

But I need to focus on my tasks or there weren’t be any environment for those organisms to even exist.

Now that I’m an active participant in this three-way symbiosis I won’t really feel any remorse taking some of its nutrients. Besides come to think of it I’m also quite literally saving it from a fiery death, thats gotta be worth some generosity.

Using the nutrients from the lichen actually made building the mycelium on the tree quite easy. Which made sense honestly since the nutrients were coming from close proximity to where I was growing mycelium.

i needed to replicate this for all the trees around the border of my area, though, and depending on how wide of an area the fire is I might even have to go further. And not every tree will have lichen growing on it as well which will most definitely be a pain.

Eventually I could maybe find a way to make the lichen to grow on another tree but thats far into the future.

Something to think about though.