Trees

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A stunted and mutilated tree, held captive by sadistic oxygen-breathers
Trees are enormously useful things. They provide shade, food, and versatile building materials, and run on CO2, H2O and sunlight.



Unfortunately, their metabolism produces toxic byproducts: namely oxygen, a searing corrosive, invisible, orderless gas which is the downfall of trees, as, with the proper application of heat, it supports the explosive combustion of their bodies. Also, a class of organisms has developed which thrive on oxygen and do all sorts of nasty and destructive things to their benefactors: burrowing through them, nibbling parts off them, and mashing them up to manufacture massive quantities of disposable packaging material.

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