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The Biologist ([personal profile] theghostbird) wrote in [community profile] thegreatlibrary 2018-05-08 04:57 am (UTC)

The Biologist | Annihilation/The Southern Reach

[The Stacks]

There's a number of books spread out, taking up nearly a whole table. It's mostly zoological textbooks, both mundane and fantastical, modern and Ye Olde Beestiary types. And then there's the whole quarter of the table devoted to one particular author: Lovecraft.

The Biologist hovers over them, flipping a page here, a page there. She can't even decide where to start. It's like being a grad student all over again.

[The Grounds]

The Biologist can be found outside in the gardens. It's the heat of the day, bright out. Blocky hedges have riots of flowers. That means pollinators: bees, butterflies, hummingbirds. In her system, The Brightness stirs, altering her scent, making her smell non-threatening to them. She wants to study them, to see if they're any different from bees, butterflies and hummingbirds back home...Or in Area X.

So if you're out there, or just watching through a window, you'll see a tall woman in a quasi-military jumpsuit walking through a cloud of butterflies or bees, letting one alight on her hand is she studies it.

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