The node is! It is very much this thing, actually, though it feels more like a vacuum than a container filled with essence. Hm. Container doesn't quite suit, actually, it doesn't feel like it's just for holding essence. For that matter, the meager essence in it isn't the same type. It's more comparable to a - heart, being fed with plain essence and pumping out something much richer.
In this case, the something is... Well, there are two somethings, actually. Two distinct types. Some type of categorization thing, something that neatens up the things around it and organizes them in efficient manners. Too much and you would get something stuck, maybe, too anti-wasteful to actually do anything, but 'too much' doesn't feel like the standard for this node. If left to its own devices, it would quietly bring order and efficiency to things around it.
The second is far more interesting, however. What is that, understanding? Knowledge? Not quite, it's not random knowledge, it needs a something with it. Perhaps that was why the orderly essence was so easy to understand, this one was helping. Some sort of connection to other things, sympathy, maybe? Empathy might be closer. 'This is how this thing near you works,' almost, but it doesn't feel very well aimed on its own, does it, it would need something to aim it.
Or, it would, if there were any in the node. There's a little hint of more essence being made in it, but whatever it's managing to make is not keeping up with the demand just from the node itself. It doesn't have enough essence to circulate; it's starving. Long starved, actually, by how the node looks. Giving it all the essence it requires all at once would hurt it, overwhelm it, like a stomach that has starved for so long and shrunk being given a huge meal all at once. It would - not throw up, exactly, but whatever would happen seems unhealthy for the node, and it's already in poor condition as is.
... Oh. And what he's done hasn't helped. Actually, it's made it quite a bit worse, though it hasn't had any instant immediate effect. It can't pull in the meager essence it was pulling in at all, now, it might just chew up all of the essence it has in it, completely run out. Be a tiny miserable little vacuum, hurting and starving, all alone in the pocket universe he's put it.
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In this case, the something is... Well, there are two somethings, actually. Two distinct types. Some type of categorization thing, something that neatens up the things around it and organizes them in efficient manners. Too much and you would get something stuck, maybe, too anti-wasteful to actually do anything, but 'too much' doesn't feel like the standard for this node. If left to its own devices, it would quietly bring order and efficiency to things around it.
The second is far more interesting, however. What is that, understanding? Knowledge? Not quite, it's not random knowledge, it needs a something with it. Perhaps that was why the orderly essence was so easy to understand, this one was helping. Some sort of connection to other things, sympathy, maybe? Empathy might be closer. 'This is how this thing near you works,' almost, but it doesn't feel very well aimed on its own, does it, it would need something to aim it.
Or, it would, if there were any in the node. There's a little hint of more essence being made in it, but whatever it's managing to make is not keeping up with the demand just from the node itself. It doesn't have enough essence to circulate; it's starving. Long starved, actually, by how the node looks. Giving it all the essence it requires all at once would hurt it, overwhelm it, like a stomach that has starved for so long and shrunk being given a huge meal all at once. It would - not throw up, exactly, but whatever would happen seems unhealthy for the node, and it's already in poor condition as is.
... Oh. And what he's done hasn't helped. Actually, it's made it quite a bit worse, though it hasn't had any instant immediate effect. It can't pull in the meager essence it was pulling in at all, now, it might just chew up all of the essence it has in it, completely run out. Be a tiny miserable little vacuum, hurting and starving, all alone in the pocket universe he's put it.