Seed Bearer Series by Amia Phill

Clara's life was meticulously, mind-numbingly normal...until she found the until she found the oddity growing behind a dumpster. Bruised-plum leaves shimmering with oily light, obsidian buds shimmering faintly, she immediately felt the urge to add it to her collection of already dying plants. It looked too exotic to be discarded behind a dumpster so naturally, she rescued it. What's the worst that could happen?Maybe the weird dreams were just stress... moreClara's life was meticulously, mind-numbingly normal...until she found the until she found the oddity growing behind a dumpster. Bruised-plum leaves shimmering with oily light, obsidian buds shimmering faintly, she immediately felt the urge to add it to her collection of already dying plants. It looked too exotic to be discarded behind a dumpster so naturally, she rescued it. What's the worst that could happen?Maybe the weird dreams were just stress. Vivid starscapes, swirling colours, a persistent thrumming in her bones – probably just deadlines getting to her. And the feeling of being watched by the plant? Pure imagination, surely. Plants don't watch.Then come the thoughts – faint impressions of need, urgency, sliding into her mind when she's near it. Definitely stress. Or maybe she needs more sleep? Because there's no way her increasingly strange, quietly humming pot plant is trying to communicate with her. It's certainly not alien. That's ridiculous.But the buds are swelling, a violet light within it pulses faster when she's close, and the mental 'voice' is getting clearer, talking about... 'interface'? And 'symbiotic cycles'? This is probably just a very rare, very needy orchid. Right? Except... orchids don't usually reveal those.Dive into Symbiotic Bloom and find out just how wrong Clara's rationalizations can be when faced with biology far stranger—and far more demanding—than anything found on Earth. less

Clara’s life has become something unrecognizable—her body a vessel, her existence bound to an alien entity she never chose.Permanently joined to the V’sori, a being of vast and inscrutable power, she endures relentless “replenishment cycles”. These aren’t mere experiments—they’re conditioning, reshaping her at the deepest levels of flesh and mind.The true purpose is soon the Grand Interface—an energy convergence required for the V’sori’s trans-dimensional evolution. Clara is to be the conduit... moreClara’s life has become something unrecognizable—her body a vessel, her existence bound to an alien entity she never chose.Permanently joined to the V’sori, a being of vast and inscrutable power, she endures relentless “replenishment cycles”. These aren’t mere experiments—they’re conditioning, reshaping her at the deepest levels of flesh and mind.The true purpose is soon the Grand Interface—an energy convergence required for the V’sori’s trans-dimensional evolution. Clara is to be the conduit. Her body must be calibrated to withstand the impossible. Each ritual strips away her former humanity, leaving behind something raw, altered… ready.And when the final convergence begins, Clara must surrender utterly—mind, body, and identity—to a rapturous, terrifying transformation that defies the limits of comprehension.Will she survive the Interface, reborn into something otherworldly? Or will she be consumed—her essence unraveling in the bloom of cosmic genesis? less