The palm of my left hand feels uncomfortable, so I raise my hand and turn it over to look at it. There, coming out of the center, are two stalks of small, leafy, green plants. The tiny, fragile roots are embedded in my skin, and the main parts of the small plants are resting on my palm. I look closer and one of the plants has been injured and is broken at the base, so I pull it off and pull out the roots, leaving the other plant--which appears to be thriving--alone.
I don't know what they are or how they got there, but I know I must protect the one that remains.
