I'm looking through the branches of a very special and rare tree
I've tasted a few berries off the tree
It is like a mulberry tree, but tree berries are the size of a really big strawberry or walnut
I'm looking for the seed on the tree
These trees are very special and they only produce one single seed
I find the seed
It is protected by a creature similar to a stick insect, except far more dangerous
This unassuming creature perched on the tree that looks like one of the branches will kill you, if you try mess with the seed
Though, I was not there to hurt the seed, but plant it
Somehow, almost telepathically, these creatures can sense intention of those who try take the seed, so that only those of good heart and intention can get it
I gently and slowly take the seed and start walking backwards away from the tree
The creature immediately jumps down out of the tree and starts following me, watching the seed in my hand, as I walk backwards showing it to him
A decent distance away from the tree, I stop and put the seed in a small hole in the rich black soil and gently cover it up
The creature watches me plant the seed, then when I am finished and I've stepped away, it examines the soil covering the seed, patting down on it with its limbs, as if to ensure I covered it up properly
Then it returns to its tree
I watch the seed grow into a tree and marvel how quickly it grows
It immediately leans towards the other tree as soon as it is large enough to do so
I smile happily, realising that soon the tree will be big enough for it's branches to touch the tree it came from
Then I see a group in some type of spaceship
They are stealing a seed from one of these trees
They take it and quickly lock themselves inside the ship, before the creature protecting it can get them
They take off and leave with the seed
It's fucking horrible. I can imagine what it would feel like to a creature who's entire reason for existence is to protect the seed, to lose it like that
They are taking it to another planet
In this circumstance, the seed is lucky that there is someone of good heart onboard that steals the seed back
And takes it to a beautiful and fertile planet, instead of where they were planning on taking it
I didn't see what happened after this, as I woke up
But I hope it was somewhere the seed would be able to grow
The one thing I felt, while considering this, is that the plant wouldn't have grown where they were taking it, so it would have been stolen, ruined and wasted for nothing
It simply would not have been possible for it to grow, so far from the original tree
Unless they are planted near the original, the seeds have no hope