The Roam of Lindsay Bison

Bennu Station, 3:588

Me, and what seems to be every traveller who makes it out this far, have come to park their ships in geosynchronous orbit above Verde Cap. Most of the visitors are from beyond Bennu, which makes for interesting chatter on the public channel.

We all came here to sit like barnacles and wait for Verde's outer moon to fly by, pulling the atmosphere up in thick shafts of foam that twist in the magnetosphere before exploding into a head of particles that charge the thin membrane of the planetary shell and send droplets of colour briefly into space before they are pulled back into planetary gravity.

The shafts are every colour of the rainbow, and from what I have picked up from those beyond Bennu, they cause amazing displays in the spectrum far beyond what human vision can detect.

The Decarians get some sort of tactile effect, and any of their berths with the viewing windows open find them with all of their tentacles taught as support wires just barely touching the inside of the viewport. I'm not sure of the details but it sound like some sort of sex thing, and from what I know of Decarian anatomy, the pictures from the ads on the public channel support this view.

The constant rise and fall of the shafts is truly enchanting, and I found myself spending most of two days not looking at my shuttle screen with all of its readouts and informational overlays, and simply sitting in a comfortable chair by the viewport watching nature as it has happened for thousands of years happen right in front of me.

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