Starborne
“But it’s worse out here. A lot worse. Are you getting hit with the same stuff?”“Yes,” Huw says distantly. “Pretty much the same.”Pretty much, yes. Teeth itching, tingling, seemingly expanding until they fill his mouth. A throbbing in his groin, and not the good kind of throbbing. Jagged blocks of ice moving about in his belly. And always that steady pounding of dread, dread, dread. A relentless neural discharge activating the terror-synapses that he had not even known he owned.No wonder there d...on’t seem to be any higher life-forms on this planet. Animal evolution has met its match here. Any nervous system complicated enough to operate the various homeostatic processes that are involved in upper-phylum life is too complicated to withstand this constant barrage of fear and trembling. No neural hookup more elaborate than those of bugs and worms can put up with it for long without giving way.“What do you think it is?” Giovanna asks. “And what are we going to do?”“I don’t know and I don’t know,”MoreLess
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