They took a walk through a park where enhanced plants had begun releasing faint amounts of exotic energy into the atmosphere, making the air noticeably fresher and cleaner, and Orion explained how the mutation was spreading globally as exotic energy concentration increased.
"People think the air quality improvement is from reduced emissions," Cassia noted, breathing deeply, "but it's actually from the plants adapting to exotic energy and producing it themselves—within a few months Earth's entire biosphere will be enhanced."
"Which will make baseline humans healthier even without gene enhancement," Orion added, "everyone breathing exotic-energy-rich air will experience minor improvements, and combined with gene therapy civilization is going to transform dramatically over the next decade."
