The Rejected Curvy Luna Queen
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**The First Blight**
By dawn, the wasteland begins to *change*.
Patches of grass sprout around the sapling, lush and green-but their roots writhe like serpents, strangling a survivor who strays too close. His body dissolves into mulch, feeding the soil. The survivors retreat, but Jarek lingers, his prosthetic arm-now fused with Keep shards-glowing faintly.
"It's not just growing," he says, crouching to inspect a carnivorous flower. "It's *learning*."
The flower snaps at his fingers, its petals lined with teeth. He incinerates it with a pulse from his prosthetic. "The Rootmother's memories are in the soil. It knows how you fight."
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