{"id":8840,"date":"2023-09-22T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2023-09-22T10:51:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:51:24","slug":"witch-of-wild-things-an-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/witch-of-wild-things-an-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch of Wild Things: An Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2:before,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2:after{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: table;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" ><div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_empty_space td_block_wrap vc_empty_space tdi_6 \"  style=\"height: 32px\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]<span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\">&#8220;H<\/span>old up,\u201d he says gently. He cuts into a more bushy part of the woods, off trail. I follow. There, growing out of a gnarled, knocked-over tree trunk, is a collection of mushrooms. They look like a series of little tables, stacked all over one another, like something Alice would\u2019ve skipped over while tiny in Wonderland. \u201cThis,\u201d he says, with a tone of awe. \u201cThis is what I\u2019m looking for.\u201d He gestures for me to come closer with him, and he starts pulling supplies out of his pack.<\/p>\n<p>I hover my hand over them, letting my thumb fall to graze the top of one.<\/p>\n<p>A long time ago, as teenagers, Teal and I were fighting and she said something she\u2019d intended to really hurt me with. Talking to plants is gross. It\u2019s not natural. You\u2019re unnatural.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t sting as she intended, and not because I knew that it had come from jealousy. She\u2019s always hated that she can\u2019t control her gift and took that out a lot on me, like it was my fault or something.<\/p>\n<p>No, I didn\u2019t care about what Teal thought because \u201ctalking to plants\u201d feels like the most natural thing in this whole universe. Hearing the songs of plants (and dirt, and mushrooms), being able to reach their cells with my mind, with the tips of my fingers, sensing what can only be described as their consciousness, because yes, plants are conscious, they know what color you\u2019re wearing, they know if you\u2019re blocking their light, they have nervous systems and can feel pain. Talking to them is as easy as the inhale and exhale of breath.<\/p>\n<p>We literally share an evolutionary ancestor with plants. At some point in our lineages, the lines converge into one. How can speaking with them be unnatural?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you?\u201d I ask the mushroom in a reverent whisper.<\/p>\n<p>And then I listen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOyster,\u201d I announce a few seconds later. Edible, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoly crap,\u201d he says. He reaches his arm out, where the hairs all over the mushroom tattoos stand straight up. \u201cYou just knew that, huh? With your gift?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s got the same awe still in his voice. He\u2019s looking at me with that sparkling, black heat in his eyes, and he clears his throat, glancing down. I think he doesn\u2019t want me to freak out again. \u201cIf we could see through the forest floor,\u201d he says, \u201cwe\u2019d see fungal threads\u2014called mycelium\u2014every-freaking-where. These mushrooms, they\u2019re sort of the fruit. The rest of it, the parts we can\u2019t see, are the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sit on the forest floor and close my eyes, placing my hands on the dirt. When I connect\u2014when I sense what he\u2019s talking about\u2014there\u2019s a click in me. It\u2019s like I\u2019m plugged into the Matrix, only it\u2019s not lime-green code everywhere\u2014it\u2019s those white veins of mycelium, connecting everything in this forest in miles and miles of microscopic strands of silk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plants use the threads to exchange resources. And to communicate with one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His voice is nearer but I don\u2019t open my eyes. \u201cI can feel it.\u201d I say it as a whisper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s it feel like?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I shake my head, keeping my eyes closed. \u201cIt\u2019s like . . . I don\u2019t know.\u201d I blink my gaze open. \u201cNo, I do know. Sometimes plants get extra chatty. Some old trees especially.\u201d I look around me, at the big oaks, wide and tall and ancient. \u201cOnce I heard from a tree, what connects everything in this world is story. Stories hold the universe together. And that\u2019s what I see, this . . . mycelium . . . that\u2019s what it feels like. It feels like stories, connecting all plants, like the most complicated and beautiful spiderweb of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s close to me now, sitting next to me. I see the whole forest, the whole world, in his eyes again, and me there, too. I don\u2019t lean away when he comes even closer. \u201cSage,\u201d he says, his voice husky, and he kisses me.<\/p>\n<p>My whole body is alive with my own veins, veins that have been created and connected to the veins of mushrooms right here in town, which are created and connected to the veins and webs and threads of mushrooms the world over. Everything electric with life. With stories. 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