Chapter 16: A kin [1]
A human!
A trial candidate!
Like me. The only one that survived this far.
Along my expansion journey through this treacherous world, I met 2 more plant lives that were just like the first, trial candidates but like the first, they were already terminated by the time I met them.
This plant, this guy... it was the only survivor besides me.
I extended my senses, then I saw him. There he was; naked, skeletal, a plant but barely formed, still alive. His aura flickered like a candle lost in a storm.
I could have left him.
But I didn't.
Something in me recoiled, but something else surged forward.
Not compassion. Not yet.
Just... memory. Fragmented, echoing memory. Screams. Jets in the sky. The last faces of Earth.