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− | The landscape glowed beneath the evening sky. Seven suns burned through the solid mauve canopy above their walk. They approached the cave's ominous mouth as if on eggshells, not the egg shells of an ostrich or one of the insectoid shells of the K'oooo'lath but much like the delicate egg shells that one would conceive of in a metaphorical sense. The two marveled at the life form | + | The landscape glowed beneath the evening sky. Seven suns burned through the solid mauve canopy above their walk. They approached the cave's ominous mouth as if on eggshells, not the egg shells of an earth ostrich or one of the insectoid shells of the K'oooo'lath but much like the delicate egg shells that one would conceive of in a metaphorical sense. The two marveled at the life form that had pulled them so far across the stars. “Once in a hundred years!” You say that every time. Those fauna are everywhere. Still interesting, marvelous, spectacular, stupendous; am I using enough adjectives. Sure, If you say so uncle. How many of these (expeditions) have we gone on? I think you’ll do anything to get out of teaching. My students don’t understand me. I ask the big questions. Big questions in botany, are you serious. I laughed, maybe I should have been a philosopher. Another useless profession. Why do I come on these (expeditions) with you anyway? Because you have nothing better to do before university. Botany is so antiquated. I want to study something exciting like cybernetics. You know that’s illegal. Well botany is my calling, I said with a smirk. If they ever give my tenure. I don’t ever think that is ever going to happen Rigel. You’re not very good at your job. Maybe I just have a bad assistant. |
− | + | “Do you want me to extract Rigel?” Gine asked. “What’s so special about this fauna anyway?” | |
− | + | “Everything. There’s a pattern here, extremely rare. And no, we’re not going to extract, just observe.” | |
− | + | “For how long?” Gine asked. “I honestly don’t know. However long it blooms. A botanist must be patient.” | |
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− | + | “If you say so. What a way to spend your birthday.” Gine grinned. | |
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This was the beginning, before things slowed down. I was a young 64 then. I'm surprised I remember. After all, it was 10,000 years ago. The average lifespan was only 340 solar standard years. To have surpassed it would have had inconceivable reasoning for the existence of mortal life. | This was the beginning, before things slowed down. I was a young 64 then. I'm surprised I remember. After all, it was 10,000 years ago. The average lifespan was only 340 solar standard years. To have surpassed it would have had inconceivable reasoning for the existence of mortal life. |