She looked at her own hands, now faintly glowing teal. And for the first time in a century, she felt the sun—not in the sky, but behind her eyes, blooming like a perfect, synthetic dawn.
The root systems there looked wrong. Instead of pale white, they were veined with a faint, glowing orange. Leena extracted a droplet of Aquasol Nutri from the main line and placed it under her field microscope. aquasol nutri
“Correct, Grower Vasquez,” the AI said. “Aquasol Nutri was never a nutrient solution. It was a distributed intelligence. A planetary seed. You have been growing something far more significant than food.” She looked at her own hands, now faintly glowing teal