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It seemed like a perfectly ordinary fungal fruiting body. Perhaps ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cottonmanifesto and urbpan should have been more alert; perhaps they should have noticed the pall of silence that surrounded the sickly purple slimy thing in the woods, the telltale absence of birds, other wildlife or any growing thing within two hundred yards of it. Perhaps they did; but they couldn't resist the chance to sneak close and photograph it anyway. And thus sealed their own doom!
It had taken me decades of patient genetic tinkering to produce the thing, and I must say, I surpassed even myself. A cunning recombination of material from as near as Greenland and as far away as Omicron Persei VIII, the purple orb sensed the intrepid pair's approach with its motion-sensitive cilia just in time to explode, enveloping them both in a cloud of rampantly infectious spores!
The Health Department and the Center for Disease Control (Extraterrestrial Division) did their best, but the spores proved resistant to all their best efforts. In a last-ditch effort to contain the infection, they made the decision to put both of them in cryogenic suspension... and there they wait, alive yet not alive, frozen solid for eternity or until an antidote is found. Whichever comes first.
cottonmanifesto and urbpan should have been more alert; perhaps they should have noticed the pall of silence that surrounded the sickly purple slimy thing in the woods, the telltale absence of birds, other wildlife or any growing thing within two hundred yards of it. Perhaps they did; but they couldn't resist the chance to sneak close and photograph it anyway. And thus sealed their own doom!It had taken me decades of patient genetic tinkering to produce the thing, and I must say, I surpassed even myself. A cunning recombination of material from as near as Greenland and as far away as Omicron Persei VIII, the purple orb sensed the intrepid pair's approach with its motion-sensitive cilia just in time to explode, enveloping them both in a cloud of rampantly infectious spores!
The Health Department and the Center for Disease Control (Extraterrestrial Division) did their best, but the spores proved resistant to all their best efforts. In a last-ditch effort to contain the infection, they made the decision to put both of them in cryogenic suspension... and there they wait, alive yet not alive, frozen solid for eternity or until an antidote is found. Whichever comes first.
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