It's night now.
I can't exactly see without eyes or optical nerves but somehow I can still see. Same without any nerves I can still feel. So I can see when the sun sets and how the temperature goes down.
I can also hear. Lets not think about how I retain basically all human senses without any negative effects despite being a plant. Instead let's update everyone, aka the poor meeting room inside my mind, on what happened since I found out I could taste.
I went wild.
Just pure wild.
Drank up every candy droplet in my strange little dirt digging sight.
I even struck gold as sometimes I would find a whole pocket of something yummy. They looked like balls of water or misshapen jello. One was even kind of soda flavored if you can believe my now plant tastes.
Turn out they're not exactly food, oh they are very tasty and nutritious to me still please keep them coming. But they're more like energy or magic if that's easier to understand.
Got it plant brain? It's like magic, mana, spirit power whatever you want to use. This makes sense since I have no mouth to consume anything. I'm basically absorbing things as if they were fluid or gas into my roots.
Now the bad news
I ate a bug
It tasted like a bad jellybean you get in in grab bag.
I can't even be sick, plants don't get sick from eating bugs noooooooo. It's all just fertilizer.
I get it, a bug should be no big deal. People eat bugs all the time let alone plants. I'm not really even eating it. But it's the principle of the matter!
Even I accidentally bit into fruits with a bug back home, oh not a good thought right now. I'm just not used to eating….bugs oh ew.
If this was any other webnovel, I am this greeeeeat powerful tree that will grow and devour many lives. Wait can I do that, is that an option? Besides still hearing my own voice do I even have any other abilities? Ah too much overthinking right now, nothing plant me can do right now.
But after my entire reckless wild feast I have sprouted! Not just one sad little leaf but two puny sprouts. I deserve a round of applause, thank you grass.
I would keep eating but I'm sort of…tired? Or well full, I feel as if I need to digest before eating any more. Which makes sense, it's also bad to over water your plants. Anyways I'm stuffed.
So now what?
What else is there to do as a plant?
There's no system or anything to guide me here, purely winging it.
Normally one would sleep at night but I've slept for a very long time I'm sure. Crying always takes a lot out of me before, and the shock of my death hit hard. I've slept enough for now
To be completely honest though, I'm too scared to go to sleep. Call it human instincts or whatever but I was raised to associate nights in the wilderness as unsafe. It's also my first night here. Who knows what's out there ready to munch or crush on innocent little sprouts!
I know there's wildlife around here. I've heard them with my very own nonexistent ears.
I heard the buzz of insect, rustling of small creatures and even the lingering calls of bird before sunset.
But now I can't hear anything except the crickets. Can't see much anything either but that's nothing new in all this grass. I'm so short, much shorter than when I was alive. This is so depressing really.
Rather than growing taller though it's still more important to focus on my root system. The roots are what's stabilizing and giving me the most nutrients. Maybe I photosynthesized while out in sunlight? I couldn't really feel anything different especially compared to eating-uh absorbing the mana candies in the ground.
I've noticed how my roots don't actually have to be touching any candies or nutrient sources. Close enough around the range of the dirt will do. As I ate more that range increased but hey I'm still new at figuring all this stuff out. I wonder if I can save the food I find for later. I'd like to keep digging but would hate to waste food.
If anything I could always just move around them and absorb at a later time.
I'm developing an exercise pattern: Dig dig dig, look around above ground, rinse and repeat. You never know what sort of animals could trample or eat me. I hold off on absorbing any mana candies I find because hey looks like I can control myself and the digging doesn't damage any food I find. Dead bugs however…let's leave that plan for another time.
Dig dig dig check the surface dig
And that's when I encountered it. The first living creature I've seen since waking up.
An earth worm…
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH PLEASE DON'T EAT ME!!!
Retreat the roots, I repeat RETREAT! Luckily this is also something in my range of control. I can pull back or redirect my roots where need be.
But the worm is approaching me? It's worming closer!
Oh great the last thing I say before my untimely end is a terrible pun.
I quiver and retreat my roots from the worm's range but it inches itself closer. To be fair I'm not very big and my roots are rather thin, this normally insignificant worm is clearly larger than whatever I am now.
To think I'd be scared of a worm…Please don't eat me I've saved so many of you guys on rainy days when you're all washed up. Please, you owe me!
Huh?
You do owe me?
Did the worm just talk? Well not talk but it communicated its intentions? The worm owes me, but for what? I'm just a little plant, barely a seedling.
The feeling I get back isn't threatening at all, in fact it's the opposite. I get a rush of humble gratefulness from it.
Ok?
It's grateful and wants to stay around to work the soil? Even bring me food?
Man I'm learning worm body language really quick.
I see no issue as long as it's not a threat. Worms especially are important to the earth and after all I can't claim or control this place so it doesn't need to communicate that to me.
...Wait, are you saying I CAN claim and control land around me? That I release a good energy for the land and surrounding creatures?....Oh yes please do tell me more Wormie, you don't mind me calling you Wormie right? If you can do it, all the worms will do anything I ask?
Take that non-existent system!
I just got info and became worm queen.