The magical forest was home to a vast mycelia network, an intelligence that connected every tree and moved with the speed of a glacier.
It sensed that a darkness was coming, and that the lighting-quick creatures that moved through its paths needed to be warned. So it gathered up its energy and budded a myconid to be its messenger to the human world.
The child slowly pushed their way through the soil, and broke from their mother network with a pop of fungal threads.
But by the time the myconid reached the palace, it had been many years a ruin.

“mushroom I” by blumblaum is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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