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Tried to explain…tried to fore didn’t care, really, it had irl with the power of gravity

So at the idea Someone Edilio

She had a flash of sensation, the feeling of the gun bucking in her hand

Someone…

She gasped as the gaiaphage split open her es of monstrosities

The largest was a shaggy thing like a grizzly bear with eighteen-inch spikes at the ends of its paws…creatures that were all sharp edges, as if they’d been asselowing inner fire Things that flew Things that slithered

But when she saw them, she didn’t just see the surface She saw them inside and out at once Saw their construction Saw the way they were folded into one another, one inside another,doll

Destroy one and liberate the next

Regeneration Adaptation Each new incarnation as dangerous and as deadly as the one before

The gaiaphage had conceived of the perfect biological machine

No, not his conception He had reached into a ination infinitely more visionary than his own

Nee’s name for him: Nemesis

Nemesis with infinite power held in check only by the twists and turns, the blind alleys and sudden high walls inside his own daed brain

Neether here, in this way, to e unstoppable, unkillable

Only one piece wasThe food The fuel