Inside, suspended in a thick, clear gel, was a cluster of dense, crystalline structures that looked exactly like human neural pathways.
Stranded on the tidally locked moon of Kepler-186f, she was the last living crew member of the Aegis expedition. The atmosphere outside the habitat was a toxic soup of heavy ammonia, but inside her failing biodome, Aby had one thing keeping her alive: a single, heavily mutated flowering plant she called the . It was an engineering marvel and a biological nightmare: PodFlower.Aby_Sekara.1.var
Aby had created a closed-loop system of desperate symbiosis: Inside, suspended in a thick, clear gel, was