Shimmering, miragelike, a tree of steel thorns appeared out of the haze and a sudden dust storm of ochre sand. The thing seemed to fill the valley, rising at least two hundred meters to the height of the cliffs. Branches shifted, dissolved, and reformed like elements of a poorly tuned hologram. Sunlight danced on five-meter-long thorns. Corpses of Ouster men and women, all naked, were impaled on at least a score of these thorns. Other branches held other bodies. Not all were human.
dog days of summer
Submitted 4 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Castigant@hexbear.net 3 days ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Lead, land atop this rock
Infinite path carved with unrivaled skill
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
Shrikes are my favourite cute little fluffy psychopaths. Cats could never.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They don’t shove them onto spikes so they’re not quite at shrike level, but leopards sometimes drag their kills up into the trees to hide them. Imagine walking by during a windy day and it starts raining monkeys and antelope.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Hallelujah!