Author's note: I have decided to continue one of my favorite series, For the Love of Botany. It has been a long time since I have added anything to this tale and only recently have found the inspiration to do so. I hope there are still some of you out there who have enjoyed the different tales that encompassed the series. I am always happy to hear from someone who is a fan of this fiction. Thank you for your encouragement.
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Deep within a densely populated jungle a lone girl sits. She is naked in every way. Her body is a green tone that mirrors the giant trees and leaves which form a canopy above her. Her hair is a flowing mass of long vines and her eyes a bright and vibrant violet. She otherwise appears to be a perfect human female. Her body is flawless. Her waist is small and her stomach well toned. Her breasts are not large, but nor are they small. They are pert and sit high upon her chest. They are capped by a dark green areola. Her legs are long and as toned as her stomach. She is obviously quick and fit and capable of surviving the dangerous world in which she lives. Her name is Ariana and she is the only living descendant of the first of the Seeded. She is also the first of the Reborn. Here upon a fallen log she records her thoughts, knowledge, and life upon a bound book of cut hide. In the darkness, her pride and right are evident. But she is alone, for now.
Much has been made of my ancestor's role in the discovery and founding of our society. Some of it is true, some of it is false, and some I could not decipher for you. A great deal of time has passed and there are too many breaks in the continuance of history for me to be able to definitively say what to believe. And then, what good does it do to tell you to believe in this or that. Some of you will believe me because she was the first of us to carry the seed of the plants within us. Others of you will believe me because I am the first of the Reborn and at the moment the only of them. I do not believe that my case is unique except in timing- soon others of you will return to seed and come spring will burst into this new blossom that I carry.
For history's sake, because it means so little now, I will review some of what I know of recent (or more recent, if you will) history. I will try to avoid falsehoods and lies as some are prone to in this day. I am who I am. I am a descendant of the first Seeding and the first of the Reborn. Nothing shall change that and it is not subject to the political machinations of those who are late Seeded.
You have been taught, like your sisters and mothers, the Histories and the Joys as recorded by Sarah. After the first Seeding, the plants and we, their providers spread with them. The wickedness of the unWomen or men as they once were was wiped clean. Sarah in her knowledge formed the first of the Seed kingdoms. It was based on simplicity of life and the celebration of the Seeding. You and I are still taught to revel in the pleasures of the Givers and their seedling. Sarah knew also that without the unWomen that we would quickly fade from the face of the earth. And so she set up the first of the Breeding colonies and the first rotations began under the new sun. These are the Golden Years. Not long after Sarah went to root did the age of the Understanding dawn. We learned of the blessings of the Givers- our longevity, health, and the neutralization of the threats of the warming that came in the early time. In these days, the last of the rebellions was put to rest and we learned to accept what happened in the world around us. After a hundred years of learning and peace we went to war again. One of our sisters betrayed the covenant made with the rest of womankind. She was deceived by one of the breeders and helped him to escape. This was the age of Turning and the Second Rebellion. He, as he is called, lit the world afire with the weapons of old and nearly wiped what had been created from its face. If not for the Givers we would have perished. But they carried us within their buds until the air was clean again. Many of them, and of us, had perished but there was still hope and we carried on. This is the most recent of the great events that have shaped and recreated the world.
Out of the Turning came the new creatures- the tigrans, and the leonines, and the canine. These new beasts were different then their predecessors and were more dangerous in some ways. The tigrans and the leonines both are capable of inseminating and fertilizing one of the Seeded. The tigrans, a strange mutation of man and tiger and insect, are the most lethal. Their phallus is heavily barbed and will rip our sensitive passage to shreds during mating. It is not a painful death at first, because of the heavy endorphins released with its sting. It is not until the eggs began to feed of your womb and then your organs that the pain begins. Death is prolonged and always fatal. There is no way to purge the eggs from the system. If one of the Seeded is found carrying the signs of tigran breeding, we execute and burn the carrier. Leonines are also a strange breed of ape, lion, and insect- in this case scorpion. Leonines are also capable of breeding with us and procreating in that manner. The semen of the leonine includes a strange chemical which, upon entry to the bloodstream encourages feral behavior. Women who have been subdued and bred repeatedly often become fully feral and animalistic. They will enthusiastically mate with their leonine male and hunt and even kill their Seeded friends. The canine are the most natural of the new mutants. They are just as the dogs of old- just giants. The average canine is the size of a mule. They are trainable as pack animals and as guards. The trainer duty is dangerous because one bite is often fatal. In recent times we have seen several cults associated with the worship of canines. Some of the Seeded keep trained canine as sex toys. They are an enjoyable and animated partner, although difficult and expensive to care for.
Some of you no doubt are wondering about me. After the second rebellion, my mother had been taken up and carried in the bud of her Giver as many of you and your mothers were. Once the air was clean, she was not immediately released- which was unique. Nine months after the air was renewed she was Reborn. She was pregnant with me, my father the Giver who had protected us for so many years. He went to root upon our Rebirth and she went into labor. The midwife who delivered me proclaimed me a Messiah or Savior for our civilization. I was an unknown then. My "royal" bloodline and the uniqueness of my birth made me an object of fear and worship. For those of you who will read this in the future I will include a brief description of my appearance. My skin is a soft green like the leaves of the Givers. My eyes are solid violet, no pupil or iris. My hair is hundreds of smaller tentacles, such as those of our Givers. I have complete control over each individual strand and am quite adept in their usage. Perhaps the most unique aspects of my appearance are my pussy and my nipples. When aroused, both undergo drastic changes, different from those of a human Seeded. My nipples look like normal ones at first glance when un-aroused. But after stimulation they rise up and harden. Their texture and appearance changed to that of a woody thorn. I have been told by my lovers that a prick of the thorn increases sensitivity and arousal tenfold. My pussy, as I said, also changes. At first it appears, again, as a normal woman's. Upon stimulation it begins to bloom and spread as a flower. Each of the petals is sensitive. Once stimulation has ended the petals will fall to the ground and my pussy will look normal again. I have self-experimented and found that I can produce dozens of blooms within a day. There seems to be no limitation to this function. As a normal woman orgasms, I bloom. The sensations seem similar except for the appearance and increased surface area of my pussy when it has reached full bloom.
The young woman had grown tired. Despite the obvious superiority of her physique the last few weeks had been trying. She had gone from being a sacred object of adoration to thousands of women, to being a traitor and a mutant. She had challenged the new society which had sprung up in the wreckage of the Second Rebellion. Before the uprising, her family had headed a benevolent utopia of sorts. Now she was alone in the wastes, prey for the mutants of which she had just written and for those who needed her dead. Ariana rolled up the writings and stored them safely away in her woven knapsack. Then she went to root. To the Seeded (the women who had been chosen by their plant mates and born new fruit from the mating) going to Root meant death. For Ariana, it was literal. As she slept her toes furrowed into the ground and drew nutrients from the soil, replenishing her energy. It was her most vulnerable period. If her enemies were to come upon her quietly they could finish her before she had the opportunity to pull her feet free from the ground. This night would be a peaceful one- the last for a while. Ariana would be tossed between the rampant demands of nature and the manipulative actions of civilization.