Scion:
The scion live on Planet Halmony. When they are born, their parents start the elaborate process of pleaching a sorkit tree on each of the newborn’s appendages; Pleaching is the process of weaving branches or roots of a tree. Because the sorkit tree exhibits the characteristic of inosculation, self-grafting, the parents slowly cultivate a suit of tree-armor on the scion that grows in situ as the child ages; inosculation occurs when the cambiums of two parts of a tree are exposed to each other for a long enough duration in which they can fuse together. The sorkit grows aeroponically as Halmony’s atmosphere is rather thick with water vapor.
My parents pleach the branches so,
With these trees I develop and grow.
The misty atmosphere of Halmony,
Allows for sorkit growth aeroponically.
The sorkit cambiums are revealed,
To inosculate, and then the bark is healed.
Between the pleachings you cannot see,
Self-graftings, they encompass me.