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And the crew of Odyssey II make another strange discovery...
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It’s a mound of eyeballs stacked to my shoulders. It’s the cocoon of a monster. It is the monster, and some unthinkable horror will shoot out of the eyespots if I get too close to it. I’ve heard the stories.

Yuzo and I are taking our drilling elsewhere until we can get a professional opinion from our biologists, but not before we’ve had a chance to place bets. If it’s a harmless plant, then I owe Yuzo three packets of chocolate. If it’s an animal, I get half his raisins. It would be easy enough to cheat and see if it’s warm to the touch. But what kind of fool would approach a formless being that stares back with twenty eyes? I know a man who’s fearless enough to do just that, and I’ve got my eye on him.

- Alexander “Os” Ostrovsky, geologist

Eggs? That was the unanimous agreement among the members of the tracking party. Caroline, Alex, and Erin found what they were looking for and more. The tracks led to a herd of herbivores the size of bears. In the center of the crowd was a communal nest. It must have been a sight unlike any other. Eggs were being deposited right in front of their eyes in a process I don’t entirely understand. How can an animal produce an egg without laying it? That’s hard to picture.

Either way, it’s not a plant. Well, I never liked raisins that much, anyway.

- Yuzo Yamamoto, geologist
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And the crew of Odyssey II make another strange discovery...
__________________________________________
It’s a mound of eyeballs stacked to my shoulders. It’s the cocoon of a monster. It is the monster, and some unthinkable horror will shoot out of the eyespots if I get too close to it. I’ve heard the stories.

Yuzo and I are taking our drilling elsewhere until we can get a professional opinion from our biologists, but not before we’ve had a chance to place bets. If it’s a harmless plant, then I owe Yuzo three packets of chocolate. If it’s an animal, I get half his raisins. It would be easy enough to cheat and see if it’s warm to the touch. But what kind of fool would approach a formless being that stares back with twenty eyes? I know a man who’s fearless enough to do just that, and I’ve got my eye on him.

- Alexander “Os” Ostrovsky, geologist

Eggs? That was the unanimous agreement among the members of the tracking party. Caroline, Alex, and Erin found what they were looking for and more. The tracks led to a herd of herbivores the size of bears. In the center of the crowd was a communal nest. It must have been a sight unlike any other. Eggs were being deposited right in front of their eyes in a process I don’t entirely understand. How can an animal produce an egg without laying it? That’s hard to picture.

Either way, it’s not a plant. Well, I never liked raisins that much, anyway.

- Yuzo Yamamoto, geologist
__________________________________________

See also: [link]

Read the whole story here: [link]

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