Kain blew out a breath. "Alright. Scan Pangea. I want candidates for EVE—this time only for the symbiont. You've run searches before while I focused on Queen. Widen your filters and try again."
VERA: "Understood. Initiating planetary index sweep…"
VERA's glowing eyes dimmed, then pulsed in a measured rhythm. Blue‑gold lattices stitched themselves across the domed mural overhead and along the hovering crystal terminals—Pangea's biospheres rendering as living maps. Lakes, groves, canyon seams, the World Tree's gargantuan root‑shadow—each flared to life in sequence as the assistant sampled signatures.
VERA: "Results ready. Presenting top‑ranked EVE Base Materials by compatibility, safety, and yield."
Panels unfurled with tidy, annotated thumbnails.
1-Aurelian Photophyte Bloom — Primary Candidate.
Origin: The artificial lake. A periodic luminous algal bloom catalyzed by the Aurelian Fish
