Jack looked at Arad, "What makes it so scary?"
Arad lifted his head, "What do hearts do?"
"Make blood move? Keep people alive?" Jack replied.
"Then what is a heart doing deep underground? Why is it linked to the trees?" Arad glared at Jack.
"Wait!" Jack gasped, "You don't mean this whole forest is one massive creature."
"All those trees link to one heart so they are one creature." Arad looked at the flames. ^Is she the one I've been seeing?^
{Are you saying she got over me and is talking to you? We're one being, I would hear and see anyone talking to your mind.}
^Mom, but what about what Jack said? Only children could talk with those beings. I'm still a few weeks old, while you're a fragment of my mother's consciousness. How old are you?^
{I can't tell exactly as that information wasn't left with me, but I'm, well over four thousand years old.}
Arad stood, "I will go sleep," He stretched his arms.