>>5401768>>5401769>>5401774>>5401778>Radiation is everywhere, burning and blazing with indiscriminate hate. It’s particularly dense in the shells of the Flounder Feeders but, in an unusual progression, it’s devised a means of filtering a fraction of that radioactive taint into a pittance of pure energy, injected straight into its thin, crude veins. Its nutritional value is questionable but the onset of cancer has grown slower.Over untold generations of painful trial and error, the Flounder Feeders have developed a very simple, very unlikely mechanism for diluting the radiation in their shells, breaking a small part of it down into raw energy which is then funneled directly into their weak circulatory system. At the current time, this is a supremely inefficient and dangerous supplement to their diet, but it is an enormous step toward true self-sufficiency. It’s also the first local example of radiotrophic sustenance in a macrocellular life form and has slightly lowered the extreme cancer rate, causing the Flounder Feeder population to drop slower.
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