From Smythe's landing the man in shirt sleeves was doing something with a pail. Angus stopped to extract a promise fortified with a prospective bribe that he would remain in that place until the return.

Seemed to make no difference. The truth was she had formed an emotional attachment to the stream-had bonded with it her Mom would have said-and couldn't bear to leave it. Without it she would just be a kid wandering around in the deep woods with no plan. The very thought caused her throat to tighten and her heart to speed up. She emerged from the bushes and the stream re-appeared. Trisha followed it with her head down and a scowl on her face as intent as Sherlock.
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A biosphere was terraforming jargon-for all the plant and animal species required to render a sterile but theoretically habitable planet ecologically stable. She'd never come across the phrase in any other context. Durham continued. "I want you to design a pre-biotic environment--a planetary surface if you'd like to think of it that way-and one simple organism which you believe would be capable in time of evolving into a multitude of species and filling all the potential ecological niches. " "An environment? So . . . you want a Virtual Reality landscape?" Maria tried not to look disappointed. Had she seriously expected to be paid to work in the Autoverse? "With microscopic primordial life? Some kind of . . . Precambrian theme park where the users can shrink to the size of algae and inspect their earliest ancestors?" For all her.
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