“As dense as capillaries,” repeated Kagan in amusement. “Nice analogy.” “Thank you, Ben,” said Ory, and Kagan could have sworn it was pleased by the compliment. “Just to give you a sense of the magnitude of it all,” it continued, “the longest one percent of these fifteen thousand tributaries, alone, wind through more than sixty thousand miles of jungle. All in all, the Amazon River system contains more than twenty percent of the Earth’s fresh water, and the jungle generates more than twenty percent of the world’s oxygen. The Amazon River itself is many miles wide in some places, and over a
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