This last, solo ascent is both difficult and dangerous, and most scholars believe that the relatively high success rate of the Honored Ones hints at latent magical abilities that are unlocked only by the thin atmosphere. Ice forms on the flumph's tentacles, and its respiration slows to almost a crawl, yet its speed continues to increase. When at last it seems it can rise no further, having reached the end of both the atmosphere and its stamina, the Honored One begins to spin. Faster and faster it rotates, until at the moment of maximum acceleration it unfurls its tentacles and flings the precious seed upward, with all its strength. Sped on by the flumph's momentum (and perhaps the collective power of the flumphs' mental energy), the seed is able to break free of the planet's gravity well and sail off into the blackness of space, while behind it the flumph who delivered it falls back to earth, completely exhausted. While this process is not necessarily a suicide mission, it's common for Honored Ones to be too tired to pull up and arrest their fall, instead lancing straight into the ground, where their fragile bodies burst upon impact.