Mx. Eater and Spitter, bush that burns but is not consumed. The soul follows the body to that place of comfort and nightmare. the end of everything before, where the road turns into a highway and there are no turnoffs for another twenty miles.
In the spirit of some earlier experiments (milkvein, waste heat etc.), here’s another thing in the process of transforming from a singular multicellular organism to a colony of loosely-allied individuals. An assemblage of discrete parts acting out their lifecycles in occasional tandem with one another.