![]() ![]() “Not only do the specimens come to you, they then have the decency to kill themselves.” She felt the plant life pressing against the edges of the water, straining towards them, every root and tendril reaching. Marina was less comfortable in the jungle now that she couldn’t see it. “They only had to switch on a light and all their specimens came running.” Swenson said, turning her back to the onslaught. Rapp used to say how easy it was for the entomologists,” Dr. The night was filled with the relentless ping of their bodies hitting the glass. When it was fully dark only the misguided insects pelted themselves into the people on board while the rest chose to end their lives against the two bright, hot lights on either side of the boat. Swenson and Marina wrapped their heads like Bedouins in a storm. ![]() Easter slipped back inside his shirt while Dr. At dusk the insects came down in a storm, the hard-shelled and soft-sided, the biting and stinging, the chirping and buzzing and droning, every last one unfolded its paper wings and flew with unimaginable velocity into the eyes and mouths and noses of the only three humans they could find. ![]()
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