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Tanya couldn’t count the times she had rubbed her eyes. Her neck hurt. Her shoulders felt like they had fossilized. Several of the electron microscope’s delicate instruments were on the fritz. She had imaged all kinds of mysterious micro-structures in the benthic seawater of Titan, but nothing definitively left over from life processes. And she was tired. She looked at her chronometer. “How can it only be two?” she moaned to her silent monitor. “Time for a break.” She stood, arched her back, wiggled her hips from side to side, and closed her eyes as she rubbed her shoulder. Tanya made her way from the lab down the corridor and into the main galley. She took a yogurt and a hot tea and made her way to a remote table out of the way.
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Carroll, M. (2015). Slithering Things. In: On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17759-5_28
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