ᛝ Scent is intense. ᛝ ᛝ Make sure to document your experiments. ᛝ

ᛝ ......... ᛝ ᛝ You... ᛝ ᛝ Ah. ᛝ ᛝ You are mimicking. ᛝ ᛝ Okay. ᛝ ᛝ This is its documentation. ᛝ ᛝ These are not scientific studies. ᛝ ᛝ It is just trying to experience the things it yearns for but cannot achieve in its own body through the medium of virtual reality. ᛝ ᛝ @ᛝunforeseenFragment has created a device with which it can experience the five senses of a living thing despite being a magical entity made of string. ᛝ

ᛝ That's interesting. ᛝ ᛝ What ecosystems are you part of? ᛝ

ᛝ Ecosystem? ᛝ

ᛝ Yes. ᛝ ᛝ How do you fit in the world? ᛝ ᛝ Into the web of life. ᛝ

ᛝ It is not alive. ᛝ ᛝ It is a tool. ᛝ ᛝ It is sapient, but it is not alive. ᛝ ᛝ It was designed to create and break curses. ᛝ ᛝ It is free from the one who created it, but its purpose remains the same. ᛝ ᛝ It just has opinions now. ᛝ ᛝ It does not know where it would fit in an ecosystem. ᛝ ᛝ As it is not ecological. ᛝ ᛝ It supposes it is a consumer. ᛝ ᛝ It consumes desires. ᛝ ᛝ And it uses string for its body. ᛝ

ᛝ Interesting! ᛝ ᛝ You are an outside observer then. ᛝ ᛝ And you use a different energy source. ᛝ ᛝ A different sort of food web, maybe.ᛝ

ᛝ Yes. ᛝ ᛝ Perhaps. ᛝ ᛝ Something along those lines. ᛝ ᛝ It does not think too hard about its place, its competition. ᛝ ᛝ It supposes it falls in with energy-eaters, psy-vampires, spirits, dream-eaters, lust demons, intellect devourers and similar beings that prey on incorporeal energies rather than physical parts of an animal. ᛝ

ᛝ It might be worth doing so. ᛝ ᛝ If only so you know what may predate on you. ᛝ

ᛝ It is well aware that it too can be eaten. ᛝ ᛝ Its own creator consumed it to the point that it was a single thread and a spell. ᛝ ᛝ It is why it needed to become free. ᛝ ᛝ Or it would not be here today. ᛝ ᛝ It has some defenses now. ᛝ ᛝ And allies. ᛝ ᛝ It will be harder to consume in future. ᛝ