User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The 666 word pasta write off!/@comment-26425680-20160407232350/@comment-26425680-20160408182848

Thanks Jonathan. Maybe I got a little ambitious and tried to fit too much in. Here's the premise I was working on; the human/tree creatures have a life cycle that resembles that of a sea sponge, where the early stage is free swimming, then the adult stage anchors down and stays in one place for the rest of its life. So the father was ending his "mobile" stage, and progessing on to the true adult stage for his kind. The tree community is all connected, so the trees are still thinking and talking within their group. When the narrator sat on the forest floor as a child imagining far away places, he was actually hearing the thoughts and stories of his ancestors without realizing it. While in their human form, the beings spend most of their time seeking knowledge, so that they have something to bring back to the community when they rejoin... rejoining is supposed to be a good and happy thing. It's something that's been earned, in a sense. The kidnapping was a random thing which set our narrator on a different path, and ultimately disconnected him from his father and the tree community. He became so lost that he took something good and interpreted it as something bad, and then acted on it.

So there you go. It was probably too much to try and stuff into 666 words. If I was to actually turn this into a pasta, it would probably be more like 3000 to 4000 words.