These have got to be the weirdest aliens Ive ever seen. They hew down their planets mega-petals, construct pitted boxes from their corpses, and then live inside them. Initial surveys of the pitted boxes turned up nothing out of the ordinary–exceptMoreThese have got to be the weirdest aliens Ive ever seen. They hew down their planets mega-petals, construct pitted boxes from their corpses, and then live inside them.
Initial surveys of the pitted boxes turned up nothing out of the ordinary–except for the pink bricks. What could their function be? Shortly, my colleague and I will enter one of the pitted boxes with the goal of finding and retrieving a pink brink. Expect a detailed report of our mission in the next communique.This is a short story.
It is approximately 2,700 words long.