Live Mana-Herb Flat

The flat carries twelve young mana-herbs in ceramic cells filled with silver sand, coir, and inert glass grit. Their veins pulse faintly under shielded violet light; bruised leaves smell of anise, hot stone, and static. Water each cell from below every three days, rotate the flat away from power trunks, and use ceramic tools. Licensed practitioners buy full flats for clinics and ritual houses. Working crews split the price and divide cuttings after quarantine; unlicensed buyers get questions before they get plants. Mites show as moving sparks along the veins. Copper dust makes the roots blue. Either contamination ruins prepared leaves and can jump through a shared hydro loop. Harvest during a charge flare and the dose may fail, overload the user's focus, or burn the handler badly enough to drop the whole expensive lot.