Amity 5 CataclysmChapter 6 Awakening
-- Earth time: 1100-- I scowled when I touched the skeleton in the large tank. I couldn’t detect the spores that Veldor had written that should be in there. The skeleton reminded me of a bleached tubular coral formation. If the being had been alive, it was supposed to look fleshier, like a sea sponge. The books I had read indicated the organisms that created the formation used the skeleton as a massive data store device. It grew more tubes as it aged and shifted the data as it let an old...