Umemag and Zendikar

Umemag and 1: Umemag and Zendikar

I drift in the astral sea and I notice a bright light pouring out from the distance and I swim towards the light. I approach a large material glowing brightly and I notice my kin eating it and many of them are my size and three of them are very large and I find a place to eat near my very large kin.

I stretch my hand out and I break through the large material's shell and I pull out its flesh and I eat its flesh. I look at the flesh I am eating and I pull it apart and I count its pieces and I memorize those pieces. I eat the hard flesh and I eat the soft flesh and I eat the still flesh and I eat the moving flesh and I haven't eaten this moving flesh before.

Some of the moving flesh is sparkling and I separate the sparkling flesh from the rest and I pull it apart and I count its pieces. I memorize several pieces and my large kin next to me's fingers brush up against mine and I move over and I give my large kin room. I did not memorize all of the pieces and I search through the large material's flesh for more of them and I memorize them properly.

I close my fingers around a lump of gristle in the large material's flesh and I try and pull it out and I cannot pull it out and I cannot pull it apart and I cannot count it and I cannot memorize it. I try to crush the gristle and I cannot crush its shell and I cannot pull out flesh from inside it. I look through my memories and I cannot find any gristle like this and I want to pull it apart and I want to count it and I want to memorize it and I eat the flesh around it to spite it.

Bright light pours out of the gristle and my large kin next to me shudders and I wonder what is wrong and I realize what is wrong and I cannot pull my hand out from the large material and I cannot move my hand and I can only wiggle my fingers. I lose feeling in one of my fingers and I lose feeling in another of my fingers and I lose feeling in all of my fingers and I cannot do anything.

I can do one thing and I can look at the large material's flesh around my hand and I can watch the hard flesh and I can watch the soft flesh and I can watch the still flesh and I can watch the moving flesh. I watch the moving flesh and I count it.

I watch the moving flesh and I count it.

I watch the moving flesh and I count it.

I cannot pull the moving flesh apart and I cannot count its pieces and I cannot memorize it. I watch the moving flesh and I see its facets and I memorize them. I look through my memories and I can only find memories of pieces and I cannot find memories of facets. I think about the facets I have seen.

Moving flesh is independent from hard flesh and moving flesh is independent from soft flesh and moving flesh is independent from still flesh and moving flesh is independent from other moving flesh. Some moving flesh is smaller than my fingers were and some moving flesh is larger than my fingers were and most sparkling moving flesh is about the same size as my fingers were. Sparkling flesh can shape hard flesh and sparkling flesh can direct soft flesh and sparkling flesh can cultivate still flesh and sparkling flesh can control other moving flesh.

I take my memories of the moving flesh's facets and I take my memories of its pieces and I compare them to each other and I do not think being stuck here is entirely a bad thing and I am a bit hungry.

I notice three tiny astrals approach the large material and I watch them pass through its shell and I watch them enter its flesh and I watch them move around freely and I am a bit jealous. I watch them until they are not close to my hand and I cannot watch them anymore. The gristle's light dims and I can move.

I can move.

I can move my hand and I can pull my hand out of the large material and I can put it back in and I regrow my fingers and I wiggle them happily. I quickly memorize the facets I have not memorized and I quickly punch the gristle and I quickly swim away from the large material and I do not want to get stuck again. I think about facets.

I have always eaten flesh and I have always pulled it apart and I have always counted its pieces and I have always memorized them. I have never watched flesh and I have never seen its facets and I have never memorized them. I want to memorize more facets and I want to get closer to moving flesh and I want to get closer to sparkling moving flesh in particular and I want to see them better.

I pull off one of my fingers and I pull it apart and I remember the sparkling flesh's pieces and I put my finger back together like that. I see my finger and I remember the sparkling flesh's facets and I shape my finger until it has them. I stick my "sparkling" finger back onto my hand and I wiggle it and I can move it fairly well.

I look through the astral sea for a safer material and I wiggle my "sparkling" finger in expectation.