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Nia's flower gardens line the colony complex. Every building has one; she claims that each section has different soil & light & she DOES have a point. Still, I didn't sign up for the colonies
just to end up a florist.
Today, though, I spent an hour working with Nia on a nausea cure from 3 of her flowers - & feel much better.
Her vegetable gardens provide us with food & medicine too, of course - but the flowers ARE prettier.
Also, they keep the nuisance creatures away.
#tootFic 2/2~
“Look at that,” Reb whispered. The ghost-bear got bigger. Another bellow-whine & it got even larger. Our sensors finally registered something — infrared and subsonic emanations.
“What is it doing?”
An hour later, we had our answer. W/ no solid-bears but several other large predators nearby, the ghost-bear the same bellow-whine The mooselike predators scattered.
“It’s a warning — a defense system. Brilliant.”
Of course, now we have more questions than before.
I’m working with the sensors & with Reb, who handles our machines.
We’ve been following a ghost-like shape (similar to this planet’s bearlike beings) for 2 weeks—we can’t put a tracker on it; it doesn’t appear to have substance, but it moves in relatively regular patterns.
Today, for the 1st time, we watched it interact with a solid bearlike.
The solid one sniffed it, touched cheeks with the ghostly cheek, & made a whining bellow, a sound we’d never heard before.
#tootPlanet
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#TootFic 1/2
"It's like one of those ancient 2D screen games."
Jay & I were looking at the square herd animals wandering around our camp. Even up close, they still looked fake. Everything here did. The tech said the plants were edible & nutritious, but Jay was right. They looked like bad graphics.
"Like a game..." A memory popped up.
Not a screen game. An early VR games had either malfunctioned or been designed maliciously; it blocked memories & stimulated emotions to direct~
#TootFic 1/2~
In one of the odder stops we’ve made (that’s saying something) we found ourselves in a space station, orbiting a well-developed but beleaguered planet, which had gone too long without a visit from home, restocking them & while onboard taking part in an arts & crafts celebration.
The Ruchiensÿr are bipedal, bilaterally symmetrical & like painting; they hailed us when as we settle in orbit to observe their planet. We brought over paper-like media & a selection~
#tootFic 2/2 ~
The wall has a single gate, which is locked from both sides.
I am angry, although I do not know why. JJ is furious, although she doesn't know why either.
The babies won't stop crying.
I cannot remember whose babies they are. They are at least ours: they are not at all blocky. The animals here are as blocky as the terrain.
The other half of the team has put up a flag that consists only of more blocks.
I do not know what happened, and I am worried.
I confess I'm not certain what happened.
Not just in that manner where one gets confused about events - all of our records were wiped by a sudden pulse that shook the world approximately 15 days past. When that happened, many of us lost parts of our memory as well.
What I know: We are on a planet made of squares, blocks, & cubes.
Half of our team has moved to the other side of a wall-like construction and built a blocky wall between us.
#TootPlanet
#GNPC
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#TootFic 2/2
So I was surprised to find Fin spending more time around me.
I don't hold myself apart - there aren't that many of us; it would be ridiculous. But as I said, we tend to be introverts here, and I'm no different.
I didn't notice it until he showed me the bath-house he’s just laid the foundation for.
Then I realized both how much time we'd been spending together & how much we already know about each other.
If we're stuck in the past, at least it's with friends.
#TootFic 1/2
Friends.
It's as if Nes chatting up Asp was a triggering event.
I didn't expect anything to come of it except them becoming friends - good for both of them.
But recently, I've noted 2 things: 1st, Tisa spending time around Pep, cajoling & fussing but- -more than that-- joking & teasing. And Pep doing the same right back; Tisa tends to hide in corners; Pep coaxes Tisa out.
Of course, people who chose to isolate ourselves as colonists do, we tend to be introverts.
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