365 Days of Drabbles, Day 206
Dec. 1st, 2013 08:36 pmFor
avanti_90: “Sucking out a plant's soul.”
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“Just stay calm. The ship's autofabber is going to manually disassemble the plant from around you.”
“Tell it to hurry, my neck is killing me.”
A blur of nanomachines surrounded her, and the frozen plant rapidly turned to dust, carried away to the ship's lab. She fell back to the floor, her exo-suit finally retracting to her uniform belt.
“Ah.”
“Oh, what now?”
“The good news you're safe. The bad news is that apparently the silica plant was sentient... and... fast.”
“Eh?”
“It's in the shipmind... and it's got control of life support.”
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“Just stay calm. The ship's autofabber is going to manually disassemble the plant from around you.”
“Tell it to hurry, my neck is killing me.”
A blur of nanomachines surrounded her, and the frozen plant rapidly turned to dust, carried away to the ship's lab. She fell back to the floor, her exo-suit finally retracting to her uniform belt.
“Ah.”
“Oh, what now?”
“The good news you're safe. The bad news is that apparently the silica plant was sentient... and... fast.”
“Eh?”
“It's in the shipmind... and it's got control of life support.”
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Date: 2013-12-02 03:23 am (UTC)Maybe it won't bare a grudge?
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Date: 2013-12-02 04:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-03 12:16 am (UTC)