Starship
Copyright© 2012 by Yoron
Chapter 12
“What are those?” he asked.
The capillaries looked as very thin hollow tubes ending in needles, and using magnetic resonance they could see how they branched out into an intricate system through the plant, all the way down, ending in a chamber.
‘Interesting’ said Jeff’s suit
“You see the valves” he asked Royal
‘Yes, they only move to the chamber”
“What?” said Janelle
“They only allow one way transports, to the chamber” Royal explained
“normally a capillary network works both ways, out and in. But this one is more like?” Here Royal stopped.
“What do you know.” he exclaimed wonderingly
“It’s a vacuum.”
The thin hollow tubes indeed was devoid of an atmosphere. It was only their thinness, relative the walls strength, that stopped the tubes from compressing.
“what a strange flower” Janelle said wonderingly
“Well, the whole planet is strange” muttered Jeff, then he got an idea.
‘What would happen if I touched it?’ he thought, unable to stop himself he did it.
Both Royal and the suit stared at it as they saw it suck a sample from Jeff’s finger, transporting it through those different branches down to the chamber. There it seemed to disappear.
“A laboratory?” Royal said to himself
“Is that possible?” unbelivingly
“I need to reset” mumbled the suit
Walking away Thomas congratulated himself on his guile. He suddenly stopped, turning at Eleonora.
“Want to do something fun?” he asked
“Weren’t we going to the viridarium?” she asked
“That’s boring.” he said distastefully
“How about us having a ride instead?”
“On what?”
Thomas, who suddenly realized how that might sound looked away somewhat uncomfortable. Then he looked back and laughed.
“Well, not me.”
Now it was Eleonora’s time to to look away. Not that she had thought about it that way but, as he said it, the implications became obvious.
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