"So, are we in agreement?" asked Ignatius, returning to the main thread of the discussion. "We'll offer Klein as a gesture of goodwill, but keep Kassian in custody as an unequivocal message against abyssal experimentation?"
One by one, the leaders nodded.
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Ring! Ring! Ring!
The small fungus's consciousness flowed in ways few beings could comprehend. It didn't think with words, but with sensations, purposes, and an instinctive understanding of the energies surrounding it.
Normally it remained dormant within the human to whom it was bonded, simply facilitating access to information and processing the light of the ring they had already incorporated. A peaceful, symbiotic existence, where its true nature remained in a state of constant hibernation.
But that changed when it felt it...
