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36- Custom Parasites
	Scene goes back to the Internal Sea. We see the alliance, Zymachi and Proteena riding the Jellywhale. Idiot is towed, indifferent, still waiting for directives. Suddenly we see that the Jellywhale's skin starts to bubble, and some sort of small spheres pop out, few at first, then thousands...
	Process is exponential, at the end the Jellywhale rips and collapses. "What are those!" says Proteena, floating in the stream. "Parasites, they clone themselves using Jellyfish material..." One of the nano machines opens up a parasite and extracts a short string.
	Quickly, he modifies a second Jellyfish, and sprays a large cloud of needles. Parasites are covered with needles, and stick the one to the other, easy prey for a pack of Jellyfish attracted on the scene.
	But it's not over yet, some parasites succeed to cross the veil of needles, and Jellyfish keep collapsing all around. Proteena captures one of these stealth parasites, and tries to peel away a sort of second skin that wraps it. Parasite reacts springing horrible claws... "It's a sort of desguise, probably crafted by Cycledwellers: they really know how to modify things..."
	"There are millions, we can't destroy them one by one..." says Moon-moon Zymachi. "We could make fools out of them, using their own strategy!" claims the scientist "Induce the Jellyfish to make empty replicas of themselves! The parasites will attack the decoys and waste their deadly bite!" And that's what they do: empty bubbles of Jellyfish skin start to fill the streams of the Mine, soon covered by customized parasites, unable to descern between true and false target. The threat of the Cycledwellers is frustrated.
37- Proteena the Traveler.

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