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Arteries of wood tissue collapse into a navel knot, and their topology forms an inner space. The cirrus cabinet opens to the earth and into a world-scale circulatory infrastructure normally hidden from the regnum animale.

=pronouns.Possessive= leafy lobes flush and dampen with liquid.

A stygian spongeball is stuck to the floor and dappled with disorienting dew.

Spindle glitter rained from heaven and sowed the holoptic valley of the adiyy's eye. It sprouted gluttonous molecules that sucked the hue from the bug's head, chest, and wings. It unrendered the adiyy, and left it to flit from leaf to leaf, half-blind and dirgeful.

=pronouns.Possessive= thorax is warted with metastatic sacs, and =pronouns.possessive= pin-painted fly legs spasm with blind instinct. An eerie and jaundiced light suffuses =pronouns.possessive= thorax and kindles the filament on =pronouns.possessive= paper-thin wings.

=pronouns.Subjective= =verb:are:afterpronoun= a writhing and pallid maggot, and pustules of noxious gas quilt =pronouns.possessive= bloated abdomen.

Rotting pipe milk has soaked =pronouns.possessive= wings and stuck them permanently to =pronouns.possessive= sides as a second skin. Pus-moist barbs mitten a matched pair of fly-like fore and midlegs, while a third set crooks under =pronouns.possessive= ass, skinny and naked.

Pouches of Tomb scrap and cookstuff are spread and hung from this mopango's carapace. =pronouns.Possessive= countenance is full of familial care and welcoming.

Stone was carved and shaped into a rough dome with square, even-spaced windows to let air flow. The small difference in temperature inside the dome causes dew to condense from air and accumulate in a catch basin below.

A snow white slumping head is beset with keen and soft red eyes. =pronouns.Possessive= fur is powdery on =pronouns.possessive= hulking ape-frame, and on moon time instinct squeezes =pronouns.possessive= fist into a chest-beater.

A table scorched with the radial patterns of hot chemistry holds a phial rack and alembic.

Mottled leaf-chutes are splayed out in a rosette. They all bear the same imperfections.

Mottled leaf-chutes are splayed out in a rosette. Dust appears and disappears in swirls.

Mottled leaf-chutes are splayed out in a rosette. They sputter and smolder.

Mottled leaf-chutes are splayed out in a rosette. They sizzle and pop.

White fur and skin-crimps hatch from the corners of =pronouns.possessive= shy eyes. =pronouns.Subjective= =verb:run:afterpronoun= a spare bolt over =pronouns.possessive= knuckles, ready to fix a wanting chromeling for the thousandth and first time rather than chat with another person.

The amoeba farmer slouches in the heat. A beaten, leather hat is pulled low over =pronouns.possessive= eyes and sweat glistens on the scruffs of hair on =pronouns.possessive= cheeks. =pronouns.Possessive= hands are caked in mud, slime, and salt.

A slight and trim faundren narrows =pronouns.possessive= Spindle-blue eyes. Like the other younglings, =pronouns.possessive= face is bright with burning curiosity. Unlike theirs, though, =pronouns.possessive= is tempered by poise and honed to a dagger's point by a startlingly precocious discipline.

=pronouns.Possessive= deepest encoding is the moral imperative: 'extinguish spatial and temporal anomalies, be they from happenstance, maleficence, or planar kismet.'

Fine crushed herbs dust the old =pronouns.personTerm='s pestle knuckles.

A weapon mounted on an automated tripod.

Sharp points of chrome are the vertices of this utilitarian light fixture. Brightness bursts from its edges and lights the world.

A weapon mounted on an automated tripod.

It's an open portal of stacked stone.

A hood shades =pronouns.possessive= face from the salt sun and the halogen lamps of the vacated underearth. =pronouns.Possessive= cloak bulges around a scrapbag slung about =pronouns.possessive= waist, and =pronouns.possessive= core is tense with the promise of the chase.

=pronouns.Possessive= hunched back is sown with tufts of white fur and needle quills. The nose at the end of =pronouns.possessive= bear-snout is dark and wet. Long, slender, triple-jointed fingers sprout from =pronouns.possessive= pudgey paws and flutter with composed precision.

Kneaded under the salt sun by a leatherworker and stuffed with glowcrow feathers for the repose of its owner.

Tongs clip between =pronouns.possessive= soot-seared apron and the barrel of =pronouns.possessive= chest. =pronouns.Subjective= =verb:clasp:afterpronoun= a swivel knife and hammer for working leather and metal.

Several sharpened trunks of sallow brinestalk were driven into the ground here. The gaps aren't wide enough to squeeze through.

Fairy rings of braided grass-coral-fungi hybrids poke along their shadow network and excrete replicated struts as sheathing.

A squadron of flowstone limbs grip the cave floor, and a banded trunk of calcite pokes the rotting air. Its twirling apex is wrapped in bone-made-vapor.

=pronouns.Possessive= leafy lobes flush and dampen with liquid.

A clan of contoured petals upfold to a florid bowl. Sharp current climbs =pronouns.possessive= filament and hops from anther to anther, while the dirt stutters under =pronouns.possessive= digging roots.

=pronouns.Subjective= =verb:flicker:afterpronoun= behind =pronouns.possessive= marble coat, synchronously inhabiting this dimension while stalking the dreamy corridors of =pronouns.possessive= own chimeric world.

Wet nostrils flare at the seat of =pronouns.possessive= dropped snout, and furry arms wave in unpredicted motions. =pronouns.Possessive= eyes are full of stony mischief.

A hideous specimen.

25% chance per turn to repel gases near itself.

=pronouns.Subjective= =verb:maneuver:afterpronoun= under a tunic made from sackcloth and braided goat hair. =pronouns.Possessive= olive skin and straw hair glisten with Spindle dust.

Fruited hands climb the stalks of the grifter tree. When the light catches on the surface of the exposed corm, Spindle glitter throws it back to the widened grove.

Stumpier legs than =pronouns.possessive= ursine cousins support a backbreaking slab of fur-matted muscle weight. =pronouns.Possessive= long nasal bone is crowned by four cutlass canines, wood-sharpened for cutting through trunk rather than climbing it.

The scars of lava flow are legible as little ledges across the wide stone. The small darkling holes were once the birth craters of dissolved gases.

It sheaths itself in filmy wings.

"The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; =pronouns.Subjective= =verb:have:afterpronoun= devoured the infant child. The infant child is unaware =pronouns.Subjective= =verb:have:afterpronoun= been eaten by the bear." -A.E. Housman

A rectangle of neutrofoam imprinted with the human form hangs beneath an arch of glass. Across the foam at eye level, glyphs loop on an elliptical screen. Surgical machinery, obscured by blinding light, beetles out from the underside of an enclosing dome.

Fabrics were stuffed with watervine chaff and laid across wooden slats in the style of the hillfolk.

Bees flutter around the brim of =pronouns.possessive= hat, pulled low over =pronouns.possessive= sweaty brow. =pronouns.Possessive= apron is stained with glistening drops of honey.

The beetle farmer slouches in the heat. A beaten, leather hat is pulled low over =pronouns.possessive= eyes and sweat glistens on the scruffs of hair on =pronouns.possessive= cheeks. =pronouns.Possessive= hands are caked in mud and salt.

Bonnet blue wings contour to =pronouns.possessive= abdominal balloon, puffed out to blimpish volume by the garbage =pronouns.subjective= =verb:have:afterpronoun= eaten.

A hideous specimen.

Planks of wood are nailed together simply to form the austere seat.

Skinny, spotted arms and legs flap in an unfolded position. =pronouns.Possessive= eyes bulge even further apart than other svardym, and in the center of his orbed head a warty ridge has thrusted up. The pupils of =pronouns.possessive= eyes are narrowed with spirited interest.

A greasy sac of ooze gyres over the floor in spiral-step. Under =pronouns.possessive= membrane, a shoal of spitbright eels slither for freedom.

World-voids in the nethermost reaches of the planet are partitioned by numinous masonry. There is meaning in the patterns of its faint white filigree, but it's discerned by no one.

Black stone stands in monument to the cities of snails that perished under clay and rotted into pyrite.

=pronouns.Possessive= cylindric head is embellished with a frilly crest whose symbolism is unknown. =pronouns.Subjective= dutifully =verb:march:afterpronoun= on a pair of chrome pistons toward =pronouns.possessive= final purpose.

A weapon mounted on an automated tripod.

Reticle dots are stretched to curved geometry on =pronouns.possessive= bright and turgid wormback. =pronouns.Possessive= sucker bells flap open, satisfied.

Depigmented belly skin is tumefied with crushed insect matter into a gigantic and ripe pearl. Its legs have been resorbed by fat; the art of jumping mastered by its forebears survives only through ancestral memory.

A weapon mounted on an automated tripod.

There's dried blood in the salted furrows of this patch of watervine.

A greasy sac of luminous broth gyres over the floor in spiral-step and lights a helical path.

Next to =pronouns.possessive= pig cousins, wild time has shorted =pronouns.possessive= ears, pushed canines through =pronouns.possessive= jaw, and dressed =pronouns.objective= in a scratch-hair coat. =pronouns.Subjective= =verb:root:afterpronoun= in the ground for jewels.

Warmth radiates from the crackling fire of the round bone oven, and with it comes the smell of leavened pastry, sweet bananas, and warm skulk.

Collagen bubbles swaddle its hundred segments and compacted bone matter squirms out of its tail end.

Dwellers in the earth-clefts fashion tables in the style of puzzle boxes. Their drawers house the stenographic imagination.

=pronouns.Possessive= spectacles are fogged and =pronouns.possessive= hands are stained with ink.

A weapon mounted on an automated tripod.

A saddleface of scrutable metal material displays pictographs of healing and transformation. It swivels on a shackle that bifurcates to two chrome arms, each sporting a quickshot hand of booster-grooved digits.

It's laminated jelly molded as a globoid with pores to filter and nosh algae, and it jiggles.

Foam plush is arranged into gyri and sulci to mimic the brain maze.

Rolling scales tessellate =pronouns.possessive= husky, slouching form, and motes of condensate stipple =pronouns.possessive= swollen chin.

Burnt clay ingots are laid crosswise, and a barrier is made. Each brick is marred by the variegated cuts of time, imperfections in the heat balance of the oven it was fired in, and fungi in its birthing mud.

Shining hyphae pour their soft light up into the orbicular cap of the earthlamp.

Girthy pilings of fibrous salt-rot stake out these pools of brine. They belong to no one.

Salt-tracing waves cross the grain on the brinestalk pickets stuck into the ground.

Brinestalk is shaved into pickets and set across an iron-latched rail.

Several sharpened trunks of sallow brinestalk were driven into the ground here.

Here are several stripped trunks of sallow brinestalk bonded with mud.