The Good Stuff in the Gardens

The real treasure of the inner gardens isn’t the tar sap, or the water fruit, or the bone cacti. It isn’t any of the fruits and goods the garden produces. Neither is it the foundries or the workshops, where the Mythtuf make their illegal thought-morphing tech. If you’re anyone who’s anyone— which is to say, if you’re a Mythtuf— you know the real good stuff goes deeper than the surface. It’s what’s inside the plants. Under the roots of the laser lichen, down the depths of the meat tree caves, in the very cells of lichen, a vast experimentation is taking place: generators. This is the secret of the Mythtuf economy, and this is how they’re gonna get out from under the Ecosystem.