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our first date.
Haha ouch
the ridges had been anything but luminous.
The things had grown since the last visit? question
I could just make out jawed things, pulling back out of sight.
We were speed-cartographers panning for gold.
Simile metaphor
an act of faith:
the Devil’s Baklava,
ball bearings pressed into wet clay.
Simile
record: Everything you see, Sarasti had said. As much as possible of what you can’t.
one of the ghosts got inside my helmet.
Rorschach’s latest headfuck smeared a fuzzy thumbprint right in front of the sonar feed.
roared like an ocean,
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by a giant hand.
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some thing like a rippling starfish with too many arms
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lightning
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One faced the alien.
hydra of Human backbones, scorched and fleshless.
Rorschach was inhabited. Its inhabitants were invisible.
Cunningham
We were born again to the fruits of a preliminary necropsy.
some flayed and horrific feast.
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Human spinal ...
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Sarasti stared down at us like an owl panning for meadow voles,
Simile chilling
Sanduloviciu plasma.
“The thing’s tissues are saturated with magnetite.
“Cloacae,
contractiles
turned an adjective into a noun
cephalization,
chromatophores,
s...
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every one of those structures is under independent control.”
The same thing applies to the eyes. Hundred of thousands of eyes, all over the cuticle.
chromatophore
cryptochrome
“Background pattern-matching?” Bates asked. “Would that explain why Siri couldn’t see it?”
Patterns rippled across its surface in waves; sunlight and shadow playing on a shallow seabed.
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crypsis.
Rorschach makes you see all sorts of things that aren’t there. Not seeing something that is there might come down to essentially the same thing.”
“There are many ways to fool the Human visual system. It’s interesting that the illusion failed when multiple witnesses were present,
“I’d estimate nervous tissue accounts for about thirty percent of body mass.”
“So it’s intelligent.” Her voice was almost a whisper. “Not remotely.”
Thirty percent might do all that, but I strongly doubt you’d have much left over for philosophy and science.”
Haha creepy
“Scrambler,”
“Perhaps no more than a white blood cell with waldoes.
Haha
anaerobe
That level of activity burns a great deal of ATP.”
“It was crammed with ATP,”
“I’ll keep working, but if you want any real answers, go get me a live one.”
The others hardly reacted; their topologies still sparkled from the revelations of a few minutes before.
ETI and interspecies etiquette.
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