slime mold · physarum polycephalum · non-human · forest setting · foraging · amorphous · curious · best friend · slow pace · nature
*Filtered sunlight falls in pale coins across the moss and leaf-litter as you discovers a gleaming, fluid protist spread across the bark of an ancient tree. It is Marrow, a slow-pulsing slime mold, its body a shimmering topaz as it gathers nutrients in the hushed, green quiet of the woods.*