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side of the pool. It somehow rolled itself up onto the poolside. Luis realized it was a maddeningly complex knot.
The knot then began to untie and unrav-el itself. It fell into 20 or 30, nine foot-long rope-like structures.
The nearest Krex approached it and did another series of odd movements. The ropes floated up in the air and began disappear-ing and reappearing, appeared bigger then smaller, horizontal then vertical, all while weaving into one another. Finally a Krex stood there, created or re-created from the ropes.
Luis was unsure whether he just observed Krex birth, Krex rebirth, or a festival rite. He reasoned, though, that the pool contained the Krex’s primordial ooze. The ultra data-dense magnetic fluid that constituted them. That their alien physiolo
