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...not even ambulatory, but when we saw it, a vast virulent purplish green cup of leaves squatting on the hillside, oozing noxious vapours, yet surrounded by the lushest... a symbiotic relationship, predatory saurians learnt to deposit the remains of their kills in the digestive juices within, and in return the plant fertilised a vast region around, growing a garden of the most succulent fruits and ferns, a fall-back and source of extra nutrition for the predators, and bait for more prey...

...knew where I had nearly seen one before. I don't think it ever existed in quite this form... but was a curdle of possibilities combined into this nauseating but effective form in this world, complete with evolutionary... had trapped animals and fed them to the thing, and with it farmed the whole floor of the... until it was not clear if they had farmed it or it them... never saw it and passed through only briefly, but when we saw one in the valley, I realised what I had passed near before...

...walk, let alone fly, but like the most oppressive dragons of western history it had learned the art of squatting on a hillside and having people do the dirty work for it... dubbed it a dragon vine and hoped not to have occasion to use the term again... if we should uproot it if we could, and could stand the acids within, but the discussion...

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