To say that the Heart was complete would be to lie; the conquest of the Flesh over life would never cease. For now, though, the basic structure of the Heart was finished because there was no more biomass in the area to add to it. Simply put, the Heart was a ball of meat, roughly twenty feet in diameter, held up by five pillars constructed of two corpses each. The pillars themselves, aside from supporting the main mass, had several other functions. Dispersed randomly across their surfaces, there were several orifices that served as either mouths or vents, to consume matter offered to them and add it to the ball and to give off heat generated by the ball, respectively. Within only thirty minutes of the Heart's completion, the temperature of the excavation pit had risen about twenty degrees, providing the Flesh that Hates with the ideal environment to grow. The Scabs now numbered twelve, and without a new objective they simply hunkered down in their positions and lay there.

With the initial area under its control, the Progenitor knew that it was time to expand. It approached the nearest Scab and physically communicated its orders. With new purpose, the tendril-laden gremlin pulled itself up and visited the others, passing the commands on. The Scabs quickly mobilized to climb up the pit walls and onto the surface, where they began to vacuum up all the plant matter they could find. The Progenitor approached the Heart and threaded its way between the pillars until it stood directly beneath the large ball. Opening its maw, the Progenitor extended its own tendrils to grasp the underside of the ball. As it watched, a human face took shape on the underside, and opened its own mouth, through which new tendrils -along with a lot of magic-infused vapor- extended to grab the Progenitor and pull it in. It was time to begin work on a new disciple of the Flesh.

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-=-The Flesh That Hates-=-
Territory: Excavation Pit
Volume: The Progenitor, 12 Scab
Infection Progress: Negligable 
Project: First Creature, 0/2
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