Correcting an error, among other things.
Yes, his journal. He mentions a wife and kids, which makes my earlier identification of him as a "her" obviously wrong.
Dharmasena talks about being obliged to go "very, very deep in[to] Sector 3" to report to Balmer, about having to wander around and literally sweat for a whole hour before before sitting down to rest, at which point Antaeus came "heaving... out of the ground, geocarapace and all." (Dharmasena wonders if Spencer Balmer's body has replaced human flesh with soil and vegetation, or if he even has a permanent body.)
( How is it that he can be so impossibly brilliant in the field of ecoscience, so erudite as 'Dr. Balmer,' and yet, as 'Antaeus,' practically autistic when dealing with people? )
March 16
[Aberrant] Nimal Dharmasena writes in his journal about the latest in a series of progressively-unsettling meetings with Antaeus.
Yes, his journal. He mentions a wife and kids, which makes my earlier identification of him as a "her" obviously wrong.
Dharmasena talks about being obliged to go "very, very deep in[to] Sector 3" to report to Balmer, about having to wander around and literally sweat for a whole hour before before sitting down to rest, at which point Antaeus came "heaving... out of the ground, geocarapace and all." (Dharmasena wonders if Spencer Balmer's body has replaced human flesh with soil and vegetation, or if he even has a permanent body.)
( How is it that he can be so impossibly brilliant in the field of ecoscience, so erudite as 'Dr. Balmer,' and yet, as 'Antaeus,' practically autistic when dealing with people? )