
Pearl by Felix Rose Kawitzky (audio)
Clarkesworld Magazine
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Lux's Periscope Orientation
The NBMs weren't state-of-the-art biotech, sure, considering Lux wasn't really a bioengineer. In paper, they were simply a technician with too much free time. They'd ended up becoming part maintenance crew, part janitor, part amateur astrobiologist on a defunct research facility at the farthest edge of Earth's nearest blackhole. Let's watch the slugs begin to investigate the seedling, until the persistent music favored by Loo's productivity algorithms got louder, letting them know it was time for shift.
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