“Is it— is it seeds, though? They didn’t burn like plants, last time, they had like… skin.” Can skin grow from seeds? Was it all an elaborate illusion? Those phone cases had certainly seemed real, during the points he could touch them and he had his head in the right place. But y’know, bygones. “We never really did figure out how they showed up. Or how they, er… propagated? So hopefully this is just… some kind of, uhm, a-accident?”

He doubts it’s an accident, but hey. Small scale is better than bigger in cases like this.