Episode: 4
Mara Vance dips her knife into a pool of glowing fluid. Her spherical robot informs her the pool holds mineral gel instead of water. Translucent pitcher-like creatures filter the fluid, letting white birds drink directly from them. Ground tremors start, and the insects release gel into massive footprints. A towering beast coats its feet in the substance to walk up a sheer wall. Mara watches the colossal herd scale the cliff.
Mara Vance dips her knife into a glowing basin in the muddy valley. She checks the thick liquid. Her spherical robot analyzes the sample immediately. The robot reports that the substance is actually a mineral gel rather than drinkable water.
Translucent pitcher-like creatures crawl into the muddy pool. They begin processing and separating the glowing liquid. Small white birds land beside them right away. The birds drink the freshly filtered water directly from the bodies of the pitcher creatures.
One pitcher creature crawls toward the spherical robot. Rhythmic tremors suddenly shake the valley floor. The pitcher insects quickly march into large footprint impressions. They discharge the separated mineral gel directly into the hollows of the ground.
A towering creature strides into the canyon pass. It presses its large feet directly into the gel-coated depressions. The sticky mineral substance clings to its feet. The beast then steps forward and walks straight up the vertical rock wall.
Mara Vance and her robot stand at the base of the massive cliff. They look up as an entire herd of colossal beasts walks up the rock face. One pitcher insect clings securely to the back of a climbing creature.
“Looks like water.”
“It is mostly mineral gel so not water.”
“The insects are filters.”
“And the birds know where the tap is.”
Mara and her robot companion stand at the bottom of the sheer precipice. They watch the colossal beasts climb straight up the stone into the mist above. With the giant animals ascending using the gel, how will Mara and her robot manage to scale the towering rock wall themselves?