The growing worried the slime without his head. He couldn't see. He liked to see. But, what was going on was inside him. Or at least it felt that way. That was distracting him from the pain of the fire ants and the pain slowly went away. This surprised the slime, but allowed it to start walking again in whatever direction it was going before. Hopefully. He couldn't exactly see to know for sure.
The fern scales were still photosynthesizing and providing bits of energy for the slime to move. The few fire ants he did manage to get while bashing his severed head into the sand also provided some energy to walk and scuttle along in whatever direction he was headed. He sure hoped it was the unknown direction he had been heading in before and not back to the rock and the brittle hard flaky thing. He hadn't crossed any more ant lines from the feel of it, although he wondered if following nearby them to wherever they came from would have been fruitful. Yet, without being able to see would just probably cause more pain from those ants. Maybe. Or maybe not, seeing as how one half of the new squishy growing thing was making the pain disappear.
The fern scales were still photosynthesizing and providing bits of energy for the slime to move. The few fire ants he did manage to get while bashing his severed head into the sand also provided some energy to walk and scuttle along in whatever direction he was headed. He sure hoped it was the unknown direction he had been heading in before and not back to the rock and the brittle hard flaky thing. He hadn't crossed any more ant lines from the feel of it, although he wondered if following nearby them to wherever they came from would have been fruitful. Yet, without being able to see would just probably cause more pain from those ants. Maybe. Or maybe not, seeing as how one half of the new squishy growing thing was making the pain disappear.