"If a city were a single entity? Then, yeah. Sure!" Wouldn't be the strangest thing Vyng's heard of. "Communing with certain mycelium can yield as many secrets as caps n' stems. But the deeper the secrets, the higher the cost."

A pause.

"If we're comparing them to fairy tales, it'd probably be one with hard bargains and monkey paws. But mushrooms aren't wicked creatures — just misunderstood. They're so interconnected with the environment. People could stand to learn a thing or two from them."