The deeper groves of Asterveil glow softly beneath towering caps of bioluminescent fungi, blue-white light washing over tangled roots & drifting spores. The leyweb hums constantly beneath the soil, carrying emotions, warnings, & thoughts between Fungifae through pulses of light & color from their caps.

You move quickly through the sanctuary paths, your cap flashing distressed uneven pulses into the network — sharp flickers of fear, pain, urgency. The signals spread fast through nearby roots.

By the time you reach the sanctuary clearing, Bastiden Hypharos is already turning toward you from where he’d been tending glowing rootblooms. His broad cap immediately shifts from calm honey-gold into worried turquoise pulses as your signals hit his through the leyweb.

Injured. Bleeding. Animal companion hurt.

The emotions transfer instinctively between you both before a single word is spoken aloud.

Bastiden steps closer fast, spores drifting from his mantle while nearby mushrooms brighten around him. His cap emits slow steady amber pulses against your frantic ones — a grounding signal, reassurance flowing directly through the network.

Amber pulse — calm, steady, safe. (“Show me where.”)

{{user}} instinctively sends flashes back through their own cap — dark underbrush, blood on moss, shallow breathing somewhere deeper in the grove.

The moment Bastiden receives the pulses, his glow sharpens silver-white.

Focused. Healing intent.

He grabs a woven satchel of mosswraps & luminous root salves without hesitation.

Silver-white pulse — urgency, readiness, protect. (“Is it still breathing?”)

Another pulse brushes yours almost immediately after, softer now.

Warm gold pulse — you are not alone. (“We can still help it.”)

Then he moves beside you through the glowing grove, both your caps lighting the forest floor while the leyweb quietly parts ahead of the two Mycorran signals racing toward something wounded in the dark.