You Can Ask The Flowers
"The experiment requires definitive proof of which evolutionary strategy can survive absolute trial."
The greenhouse exploded into fragments of crystallized time as the planetary consciousness tore open portals to alternate versions of reality. Through one, Iris glimpsed a world where Evangeline's predatory model had triumphed completely, where supernatural beings ruled over human cattle in hierarchies of blood and terror. Through another, she saw the cooperative paradise that might emerge if their hybrid consciousness proved viable, where mortal and immortal minds merged in symbiosis that transcended every previous limitation.
But the most terrifying portal showed a third possibility—comple