Chapter 3: Silver & Green. Little Child.

Hmmmm… I exhausted most of my life force. How can I help someone I don't understand? Especially since I'm not in a better position than her. Let's see who I have here. A little human child with white hair blazing in the sunlight, she wears a white dress akin to an apron, and her eyes are colourful, the right eye is silver and the left one has an attractive bright green shade with scar close to it, although her hair covers the scar, it seems like she's ashamed of it.

She raises her hands in the air and squats down to touch the ground, I wondered why she was doing that, but she rubbed her eyes and blinked profusely. That's when I realised she's been blinded by the darkness of the cave, and now her sight is beginning to return.

Now I need to hibernate, if I don't restore my life force, I'll die forever. If I sleep I can't help the girl, but I can't help her while my life force is low. Maybe if I rest just a bit…

But before I slept I noticed the little girl doing something odd. She began to grasp the roots of my flower, although I'm small, my roots can grow very long, even if I take another plant shape. Now the little girl searches for a root that doesn't simply crumble in her hands, until she reaches my main root which is normally brownish green. She walks to me while still holding the root and lies beside me. Her breathing slows and she sleeps.

While I don't dream. When I slept, I got moved spiritually to a place I had not seen. It's more like eternal life, and what caught my sight was a tree that penetrates the sky, and its roots are clearly seen from above and the best part, it radiated a beautiful green aura. The sight left me speechless. After a while I saw little sparkles, the big tree explained that those are the souls of dead creatures. They were flying towards the branches of the great tree and it sucked their souls through the leaves, and when the souls left the leaves they became holy and ascended through the heavens.

"Great tree! What is this place? Why have you brought me here! And what purpose do I serve!" While I asked the great tree some heavy questions. A little deer came from nowhere and started eating grass, the deer raised its head and looked directly at me.

The deer was terrified at the sight of the holy tree, it ran along a grassy path, but the roots of the holy tree grabbed the deer from its legs and dragged it into the abyss under its trunk. Before this place expelled me, I looked at the holy tree. There was a dark creature hanging from the branches, the only creature not to be sucked by the leaves of the holy tree… I woke up with some sentences imprinted in my thoughts.

"Don't be foolish enough to choose when to end your life, death is not an option but a destiny."

That was odd, I can't exactly recall what happened in my sleep, but I remember something about a tree… Uh, I can't think about it now.

Thankfully after restoring my life force, I regrew my roots while hibernating. Now I can use the power of pulse scan more effectively. If I scan the cave I can find its shape and make a plan or something. The only thing that I actually discovered was that there is moss growing on one side of the cave, there must be a water source nearby. Wait… Something is covering me. A dirty white silk scarf? It must belong to the cave girl, but where is she?

Using pulse scan once again. She was standing in the corner of the cave. She runs back to me holding water in her hands and a big smile on her face. Until she tramples on a rock and falls on her face. When she falls she accidentally hits one of my roots which, for a faint moment, makes a spiritual connection between us. And she sprains her ankle. And when I used pulse scan, I noticed a group of scorpions chasing after her. No, They will not hurt her! I have to control them and make them fight each other. They're playing with each other… The little girl has been crying because of the pain. I can reach her with my roots and fix her ankle using my green aura.

After a while the girl stops crying, her ankle is healed. And she looks at me with her eyes. Theeffects of green aura can make creatures sleepy, no wonder then that the little girl felt safe and slept near me.

The little girl and I grew older with time. She eats the overgrown nutritious roots that grow because of my green aura, and she brings me water and warms me. We became more coexistent with each other. She might not be the smartest human, but she's clever for a little child. Even though I can't speak with her, she talks with me for hours in a strange language I can't understand. I'm curious, when she fell on my root I caught a glimpse of connection to her mind. If she touches one of my roots while in pain I'll be able to see into her mind. When she slept, I put my root and held her hand. Suddenly something went wrong, she moved a lot, rolling kicking and screaming.

Maybe the connection was too much and her mind was shattered, But before I could do anything she violently cut off one of my roots, then she got up and headed for the darkest place of the cave.

She took a long time in that spot and I couldn't ignore her any longer. Before she cut the root off, I heard some irritating words echoing in her mind…

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These words can't mean something good, can they?