first part of nineteen
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SSARG Planet–Grass Planet
[Part of the: Cadaverous Planets]
Outside the Milky Way, beyond Moiromma and Ice Cap, is an earth-sized planet, with a large moon that seems to shield and protect its inhabitants from invading forces like comets and meteors, and bright rays altered by suns ; again, much like Earth’s moon. It has a canopy of clouds around it, water-soaked clouds, you might say, low and overhead, heavy clouds; and an underground underworld, and much of its land is rich in grass, vegetation, rivers, lakes, mountains, basins. If the canopy were to break, I’m afraid the planet would surely be flooded: flooded, and then: it would have 400 years of mud, yes four hundred years to dry out, if the canopy were to break, with its abundance of water. This planet has no oceans, but it does have grass, lots of grass, oceans of grass, you could say. Soggy weather, and not always so conducive to walking; and if need be, the creatures could lurk, hide in the tall marshy grasses of the lands. Never to be seen, and if you are attacked, the same.
This phenomenon [of the planet] It is repeated all over the globe, those endless meadows of grass, some ten feet long, others entwined closely together, so as to resemble cobwebs. Deep in its soft roots are the red, brown and black snakes, the snakes of the planet, the vipers.
Morning, it was morning, when Siren appeared on this planet, a tide of grass covered her entire being, only the sky to see, and she was tall, you know, maybe less than seven feet by one inch, maybe more than seven. feet by an inch. inch. It seemed to her that she was uninhabited, she was not like Moiromma, the cold arctic north of her. It was quite apparent to Siren that she had left her planet unexpectedly, not remembering much about her, except that she fell asleep one night in the arctic winds, I guess she froze to death. She was happy that she hadn’t landed on Mercury or Earth, but nonetheless, she was worried about this grass-infested planet. If people lived here, it would seem like a nightmare, she thought to herself: in a weed-infested jungle.
It was quite a sensation to be thrown from one sphere to another, across a ton of light-years away, to say the least. It was all new to her, but it was becoming second nature.
As she stood in the morning mist, there was an alarming peace, too still for her liking. As she explored the new grassy planet, naked as a jay bird, countless snakes buzzed by her feet, causing a bit of terror in her, and then a whisper in the back of her head, her mother speaking. .
comforted her; and from the feel of these slimy bodies, they were extremely long, heavy, and broad.
It would seem that with all these vipers crossing her path, if they wanted to, they could kill her, if they really wanted to; yet she did not know the nature of the beasts, or of the planet: and I suppose, equally, that they did not know her. Some were twenty to forty feet long. With saber-toothed, foot-long tusks, she resembles a boar. Heads as big as footballs; tails with dangling spines, because now she could see some as they ran past, around her feet, curious who she was, I’m sure. Actually, after just a few hours they became menacing for the most part. His courage was at its peak now, lost for a moment back there in the grass but come back, he was back.
Siren was tall and muscular-limbed, broad-shouldered, she was hungry, but masculine; she very similar to her mother. She found within the grass vegetation that she used as a loincloth and built sandals with other fragments that she found for her feet. The snakes looked at her in amazement, following her every move, contemplating her deep-set but beautiful eyes, eyes that seem to come out of the great halls of India. Her countenance was hard to express inwardly in words: her jaw was partly square, powerful-eyed, it was her eyes that softened her gaze, and her long black hair that made her feminine; heavy hair that took more than a fast wind to blow wildly, hair down to her behind. She had wide, thick lips, thick, sharp teeth. The big noticeable difference between her and the Earthlings was her nose, rudimentary, one might say, compared to the rest of her face, but she had two large flaring nostrils: her skin, a dark brown, with an icy gray to it. . sometimes a mixture, like marble; thick black eyebrows, low forehead, ears smaller than humans. She was not, in fact not, a hairy person, like her male counterparts in Moiromma or Asteroid Ice-Cap. But right in sight.
