yeah so i've got this story idea knocking around in my head again after talking to my little brother about the aspens that keep popping up in our backyard (because aspens can clone themselves pretty much infinitely by sending out runners through a massive root system) and you know what

a character named aspen that can and has discreetly cloned themselves over and over, and successfully infiltrated a society with said clones, is now lingering rent-free in my head.

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