15 WHERE STRANGENESS GROWS
We walk past a couple of Ginkgo type trees and follow the highest density of fern plants down a small hill to discover a small stream of water. Between the smell of the trees, and the musty, earthy smell usually associated with mushrooms, the odor of the area was a heavy reminder of the biomass in the proximity. Beside the stream, we make our first interesting discovery.
Mark discovers a foot-long insect, some variety of centipede form. The creature lies unmoving, whether dead or asleep is unknown. Mark prods the insect with the toe of his boot, and suddenly two rope-like filaments, perhaps an eighth of an inch in diameter, and a couple of feet long extrudes from the eye orbitals of the insect, and flails blindly in the air, before retracting back into the eyes
