Portensa Clone

"Well ever since we moved to this particular location they haven't been doing very well. I always made sure they had at least a little sun each day. But they were so healthy they didn't need much. ...Now you can see, they are struggling."

The boy, Akio, admitted when Gordon first saw his lichens.

Where before the fonds of the lichen had been full, practically beaming with life, now the lichen were half again as large as before with black desicated pieces of lichen parts lying on dirt all around each of the lichens.

"If this keeps up I am going to loss all four of these, the fifth one already died."

It was easy to tell that Akio was really sad.