The Isle of the Deep is really not a single creature but a colony
of thousands of individual tubules, an aquatic vector of the Mind Worm
which terrorizes Planet's continents. Over its lifetime certain tubules
secrete a tough, gluelike substance which hardens to form the
characteristic shell that floats the colony and creates the appearance
of a rogue island.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"A Comparative Biology of Planet"
of thousands of individual tubules, an aquatic vector of the Mind Worm
which terrorizes Planet's continents. Over its lifetime certain tubules
secrete a tough, gluelike substance which hardens to form the
characteristic shell that floats the colony and creates the appearance
of a rogue island.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"A Comparative Biology of Planet"
Related:
- Planet's atmosphere, though a gasping death to humans and most animals,
is paradise for Earth plants. The high nitrate content... - Although Planet's native life is based, like Earth's,
on right-handed DNA, and codes for all the same amino... - Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind.
Have you drunk your fill?
Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with... - You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre,
and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take... - As the writhing, teeming mass of Mind Worms swarmed over the outer
perimeter,
we saw the defenders recoil in horror. "Stay calm!... - You see in this dome the intermingling of native and earth plants.
Outside, they are competitors, struggling over the... - You are orphans, earthdeirdre, your homeworld already buried
so young among the aeons.
Yet now you fill the skies where we watched a million... - You waited so long to heed us, earthdeirdre,
Almost we pruned you,
as we may yet prune your branches. -- Lady... - Observe the Razorbeak as it tends so carefully to the fungal blooms;
just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from...
