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Sheeana is propped in the center of a web of information like a spider. Her legs are folded under her on a squishy little cushion that resembles a spleen or some kind of overgrown tofu dish. Around her are books. Anatomy and natural history books, mostly. Time traveler's notes written in yellowing paper from the 1800s. Papers from scientific journals. Holocubes.
The most prominent is an anatomical chart depicting a Velociraptor from the side, showing all the various muscles, the sinuous curve of the neckbones, the birdlike powerful thigh muscles. It's propped before her on a stand that's green and thin as a thistle, held open by thornlike hooks. Of course it's labeled Dinonychus but any of the ship's dinosaurs would recognize the creature there represented.
Her eyes are glassy as she drinks in the information and her body perfectly still. Every once in a while her pupil will flick over to a part of the chart and she will move an obscure muscle that shouldn't normally be movable by itself...A single one in her face, a twitch of the ears, one toe moving independently of all the others.
The most prominent is an anatomical chart depicting a Velociraptor from the side, showing all the various muscles, the sinuous curve of the neckbones, the birdlike powerful thigh muscles. It's propped before her on a stand that's green and thin as a thistle, held open by thornlike hooks. Of course it's labeled Dinonychus but any of the ship's dinosaurs would recognize the creature there represented.
Her eyes are glassy as she drinks in the information and her body perfectly still. Every once in a while her pupil will flick over to a part of the chart and she will move an obscure muscle that shouldn't normally be movable by itself...A single one in her face, a twitch of the ears, one toe moving independently of all the others.