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The vine that Ihrinnah holds up she drapes over one branch and then the next. Each small knot of a 'fruit' seems to move with its own life. Virus can sense inside each the potential for an amazing life.
"We can teach them, now, if you wish," he says. "Since their brains will be essentially human, I know how to manipulate the cells."
"Do you?" Ihrinnah says, as she roots the vine into the wet dark earth below the tree's root. "Then, by all means. What will you teach them?"
"How to manipulate themselves," he says. "And others."
***
The course of action that the pair takes with educating their young spore-offspring is an odd one, but with the clear results that they'd both been looking for.
First, it only takes two months for the children to come of age to spread their flowers and open out of the fruits. One after another, slowly, each child comes into the world.
First is a fair skinned female, white hair dropping in her mother's curls down her back. Ihrinnah names her, "Amanita Virosa, our deadly daughter. The powers of mushrooms that kill are yours."
The girl nods simply, smiles with a sly cast to her lips.
Next opens a brightly blond girl, with medium skin and a pair of eager dark green eyes. "Conium Maculatum," Virus says, "hemlock's a quick but painful death."
"I will deal it well, my father." She replies with a high voice.
A radiant violet-headed girl slips from her flower, a long twist of hair around her shoulders that dries in the pleasant springtime sun.
"Atropa Belladonna," Ihrinna purrs, "a more potent lover could not be known."
"Thank you mother," Atropa says, casting about for something appropriate to wear.
The first male of the vine's group drops quickly to the ground, shakes his blond haired head, and laughs. "That was fun, can I do it again?"
"Of course you can, Zigadenus," Virus replies. "Be sure to spread far and wide in your efforts."
A dark boy this time tumbles down gracefully from a richly colored bloom. Red haired, bright eyed, he gazes at his mother. "Digitalis Purpurea," she whispers. "Though your hand might soothe, it will also sting."
Digitalis nods and smiles, knowing his powers.
Fair skinned, light haired, and apparently light headed, another male comes from a high bloom. He is beautiful, in a way, but almost mockingly so. Virus names him, "Calla Palustris, the water dragon."
"What's that mean?" He asks, but his parents say nothing more. He is left to figure it out on his own.
A dark skinned female form steps from one bloom, sweetly and seductively. Her brightly colored pink-white hair contrasts sharply with the darkness of her skin. "Datura Meteloides," Ihrinnah says, "devil's trumpet." It almost sounds like she says, devil strumpet. Perhaps she means to. Datura gives off a laugh, and even the other siblings shake.
High up in the tree branch where Ihrinnah's vine drapes, the last of the eight bulbs finally opens. A fair skinned and blond haired boy comes out with hesitation. His parents glance over him and almost seem to scowl. What's this? They disapprove of their youngest?
He turns away but hears his father say, "Disporum, not as toxic as I'd expected, not like the others."
"Sorry to disappoint you my love," is what he hears Ihrinnah say. Disporum catches up with his sibings but why?
***
They reenter the facility to show off. Some of the long-harrassed doctors sharply turn to see the vile pair of cloned-people and sigh. But then the brood that follows them comes in.
"Oh lord, not more of them," says one.
"Yes," Virus says, "many more." His proud smile could be echoed on any man's face with his lovely wife bearing his child. But eight of them? Unexpected by the human doctors.
"Well keep them away from us. You know we've got work to do and if it fails we won't have funding next year. Got that?" The doctor says sharply. His haggard appearance indicates to Ihrinnah that in fact he's speaking truth - perhaps now, they should be left to their own devices?
It does not take long for the children - born at what appears to be age five or six - to mature. Though Ihrinnah worries that may stunt their lifespan, Virus reminds her that no, they know everything they need to, to provide themselves whatever life they wish.
"Besides, there are plants still alive from the age of their messiah," Virus states with a pleasant grin. "How short would their lives be if they merely sleep for half the time, then bloom again?"
So then, of course, the task of both growing up, and finding their niches begins.
***
Two years is all it takes to bring the children to the same maturity as their elder siblings. Taken in by that group, each of them seems to have a special ability or two. Most of them poisonous. Still, they can also play with human biology directly thanks to Virus' influence. Isolating the cause of a fever, sensing where an infection has come from. Like their father, they have a healthy respect for their creation, but are all seemingly determined to live their own form of life.
And the dragons love them too. Henshuth and Uteneth both mother them when their parents are gone. The glowing and radioactive foster mothers dote upon them day after day.
You know you would be perfect riders too, like your parents. Henshuth reminds them at the side of the lake. Your siblings are almost all paired off.
Perhaps it is time we found bonds for you, Uteneth adds. Would you like that?
"I would," Atropa says, "sisters?"
"Me," Coni laughs, followed by a quick succession of other voices in agreement.
Well then we shall locate the proper eggs for you to pair with. That will not take long I think.
Not at all, let us go.
The pair of dangerously green dragons lept to the sky and disappeared, to return moments later. Their ability to fly through the Nexus is strong, and their placement in time and space is sure.
There are a good number of places! We've succeeded! They cry together.
Where will they go?
Darkling Dawn - Digitalis bonded to Green Green-Brown (f) Skelath!
Dragonwillow Weyr - Conium paired with Forest Ruby Apiaceaeth!
Calyeni Caverns - Zigadenus bonded to Red (m) I'atenth!
Vella Crean - Atropa bonded to Dark Court Green Kaith!
Draco's Inferno - Calla bonded to White (m) Tegosumuth!
Tripaldi Special Clutch Zone - Amanita! - this took so long, and yielded no results, she has bonded Green and Red Soma Thain (h/f) from the Rookery in 2020
Starburst (Nexus Exchange) - Datura bonded Black and Red (f) Karida!
Apocalypse at Cy - Disporum paired with green Ethul (m) and Eliarori (f)!
And what will happen when they're done pairing off with their dragons?
***
And what about this odd thing here? Virus isn't sure what it is, but it's alive...
Virus bonded Henshuth at the Ring of Fire Ihrinnah bonded Uteneth at Firestone
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