Eden RescueChapter 25
The meadow was no longer a meadow, she saw as they came in; it looked more like a war zone. Gaping holes tens of meters deep dotted it where great swaths of soil had been dug out to be transported wholesale to the Ark. Alongside them were narrow pathways of the original sod, but with the vegetation flattened and dead from the heavy earthmoving equipment that had traveled along them again and again. Even the landing site, lately vacated by the second lander on its way back to the ship, seemed...