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Material
Stackable
A pinch of small black seeds tucked into a folded paper twist, each one hard enough to rattle when shaken. They smell faintly of the inside of a dry melon.
Entry
Chronicle
Collected from the fruiting bodies of the flats-cacti by seed-keepers who walk a route older than the road beside it, and who are generally unwilling to explain which seeds are this year's and which are the slow stock. Planted in sand-poor soil they sprout in a week; planted anywhere wetter they rot quietly and leave the grower with an opinion about drainage. A well-stored twist will germinate reliably for a decade, which is longer than most growers stay in one place.