The familiar black dots of Astrophage are all over the sample. But so are translucent cells, smaller bacteria-looking things, and larger amoeba-like things. There are thin things, fat things, spiral things…too many to count. Too many different kinds of things to count. It’s like looking at all the life in a drop of lake water! “Wow!” I say. “Life! There’s a whole bunch of life in here! Not just Astrophage. A bunch of different species!” Rocky literally bounces off the tunnel walls. “Amaze! Amaze amaze amaze!” “Adrian isn’t just a planet,” I say. “Adrian is a planet with life, like Earth or
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