A fic for Hal & Len! As well as one that I published to AO3, they asked for an original piece with Len's character Lichen and my character Crom. It was to be a pleasant, slice-of-life piece, and I was happy to deliver!
This was a lot of fun to write, though I got a bit lost in the sauce talking about symbiosis and had to keep editting down. It's good for me to be forced to cut out superfluous detail, so it was an excellent challenge and something I think made the piece a lot better.
There is some
very mild body horror in this. Crom is a symbiote of a dark elf and a fungus, and Lichen is a conglomerate of all kinds of parts. Please give it a skip if plants, fungi, and wasps are not your thing!
( I do miss Lichen a lot! She's great. )