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For three light-dark cycles, they were content. The constant-joy-love presence would be nearby for some time; but not as regular as the light-dark cycles. They could feel a little of the big-fierce-pride-protective presence as well even if the second presence didn’t come into the range for them to share presences.
The plant froze. Pain-agony-horror-terror-fear-NO!!! flooded their everything. They felt.... the closest they could perceive this was the fast-storm-air making the air feel dead-empty-gone. It was as if a sun-blocked-no-lights happened along with a ground-quivering-roots-breaking-plants-dying; the air was almost burning. But the dead-emptiness kept growing. Their sun-growths couldn’t even flutter-move everything felt dead-tense-still, like the calm-silence before a terrible-strong-wind-rain. They couldn’t react; what was happening? Who could-
No. Not their happy-life-hope-family-love presence. They hoped that this vacuum of light-hope wasn’t... but they knew. They couldn’t deny it any more than they could deny having new-life-givers.
They then felt a dark-anger-rage-Fear wave start to grow and spread. It felt like the breeze in their dirt-root-anchor, when the worst of the cold-dry-fast-air came in and blew green presences that weren’t anchored well away. They could sense it rush through the air; knocking over but not ending weaker presences in order to reach the now-not-happy-joyful-safe presence.
Once the second presence reached the first, they seemed to meet-mate-cling to each other. They were of unsure how to help, but they had one possible way to help strengthen-heal their weakened-sad-silent-sun. They stretched out their presence as far as they could like a long skinny soil-food-finder, and started sending out, not consuming, as much healing-safe-secure presence as they could to the two entwined-concerned presences. Maybe the presence they sent out could help ease the anger-rage-hurt-silence that was being radiated like a bright-light-explosion just a little bit.
They knew this gift of their presence would need to be renewed-refreshed-regrown, but their love-longing-awe-joy presence needed the energy much more than they did. Especially now that the once-happy-now-pruned-hopeful-family presence would probably be transplanted to a nursery to heal and be fertilized back to health. Can the presences have their clipped parts used as cuttings, to make new young presences?