The creature was behaving strangely. I'd been on the job for three weeks, watching it every night

through the security cameras, but I had never seen it act like this. The creature was about six

and a half feet tall. It was covered in roots, vine-like tendons, and green plants that seemed to

grow out of its bark. Its arms were elongated,

ending in hands with digits made of flexible roots. Its face resembled to humans, but it had no

visible eyes, just knots of organic growths. The hair comprised small green sprouts, and the face was a mess of scars,

like a tree that had been attacked with a hatchet years ago. We had no idea where it came

from every night. It just seemed to appear in the massive facility, 45 minutes after sunset.

Nor did we know how it had been created.

All we knew about it was that it only appeared at night, and that it did the same thing

every time it appeared. It cared for the plants in the nursery.

The foundation had turned its attention to this place, Wilson's nursery,

after 84 employees vanished without a trace one day.

The facility was huge, covering five square miles where they did everything from growing plants,

they're shipping them off to stores when they were mature enough to sell.

They even had an area for recycling organic waste generated in the process.

Of course, there was also an office building for the numbers side of running a nursery.

The foundation acquired the place and shut it down.

It would have been irresponsible to keep it open after 84 people went missing.

And every night since those people disappeared, the creature showed up and went through its

nightly ritual of caring for the plants.

Despite the lack of eyes, the creature didn't seem to have any issues doing its thing at

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