Fauna
In the bioluminescent under-canopy of the Myrr forests, the Pact-Hound trots with a coat that is half pelt and half forest. Coarse grey-green fur is interwoven with living symbiotic mycelium that knits across the spine in moss-mottled patches and breathes faint chartreuse light at 530 Hz whenever the hound is calm. The muzzle is long and spore-pale, ringed by sensitive vibrissae that read fungal signals through humid air. Forward-set eyes gleam with a soft inner chartreuse glow that brightens when its bonded Myrr companion approaches. Paws are broad, padded, and threaded with mycelial filaments that taste the leaf-litter at every step, communicating the hound's location to the wider mycorrhizal net. The tail is plumed and ends in a luminous tuft used as a signal lantern between pack-mates. When alarmed, fur-mycelium flares brighter, and a sharp puff of harmless luminous spores rises around the hound like a halo, briefly painting the gloom in green daylight before settling.
The fungal Myrr Veyari raise no Pact-Hound; the mycelium chooses, and a young hound walks out of the under-canopy to bond with a single Myrr for life. To lose one is to walk the forest mourning-ringed in dim spores until another chooses. Old Myrr songs say the very first chord-node in any Veyari was learned by listening to a Pact-Hound's spore-pulse; whether or not it is true, no Myrr settlement is built without a hound's bonded shadow at the threshold.
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