Sometimes forests petrify. More rarely, mountains xylify: At the summit they bud, burst open, branch out and grow into mighty world trees.
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I've read that, it's fun! But no, I've been playing with the idea of xylification for longer
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Roots grow over the sleeping rabbit, envelop it. Much later, lumberjacks find some really funky growth rings: the rabbit, now xylified.
also an idea that didn't quite make it: a city overgrown by a forest, but with stone somehow reinforced by the roots, not split apart
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my favorite remains the transmutation of wood to flesh
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krëad: (n) from kreîas (meat), analogous to dryad, except it's flesh trying to talk to wood, a tree of bones, meat, skin and hair