Lyslunden

The clearing does not appear to have been made. It is simply a space where the canopy has not closed — where the bioluminescent fungal mat is thinner and the arthropods, which move through the upper tiers without stopping, consistently stop moving at the edge of it and turn around.

The mana-pulse here runs at a different interval than the surrounding grove. Not stronger. Not weaker. Different. Researchers working in the Spine Reaches have noted this for three seasons and have not reached agreement on what it means. Working hypothesis: a Precursor modification, purpose unknown, still active.

Things are left here. Earth survivors leave food and machine components. Spinolandet organisms leave carapace fragments and colony markers. Nobody leaves them for each other. Nobody takes them. The pile accumulates.

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