Neutering the Beloved Plants

Walther Roggenkamp

The companies responsible for neutering the beloved plants offended the etheric world and its occupants terribly.

To the beings that so closely attended these crops and their offspring, the genetically modified seeds were of the worst sorcery imaginable - for both the world of the Fay, and the etheric vitality of the plant kingdom, had but one driving and determining force: Life itself.

A plant that could not naturally re-seed itself was a veritable zombie, missing its soul, its future, and its connection into the World from the outset.

And, for those plants so injured, the fairy folk who would usually stay close, instead up and moved to but another field, another source … finding no attraction with the first now depleted patch.

A plant that could not naturally re-seed itself was a veritable zombie, missing its soul, its future, and its connection into the World from the outset.

And, for those plants so injured, the fairy folk who would usually stay close, instead up and moved to but another field, another source … finding no attraction with the first now depleted patch.

Very soon these same crops could not sustain the humans that ate of them - because their true vitality of life-force was bereft also. And just as the starved starch was parched and stripped of any goodness, the one-time crops became a food in name only.

- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances