Day 560:
Thing the first: don’t worry everyone, I found the monsters. The new arrow hole in my best leather shirt can attest to it. Fortunately, it only scraped my shoulder. But in the meantime OW I WAS SHOT.
Thing the second: found another underground lake. They sure have a lot of them here.
But no fossils. I mean like none. Even if I account for the fact that most animal or creature remains appear to automatically disintegrate with the touch of the sun, I should be finding skeleton bones or fish bones or something in the soil.
Which points back to either terraformed planetesimal or fever dream. But definitely not some weird vid show where you knock someone unconscious and drop them in Old Earth’s Hawaii (or even New Earth’s Hawaii) and see how long it takes them to realized they’re not stranded in space. Definitely not a place with active evolution.
I think. I mean, I’m not a paleontologist.
I might not even be a miner.
The day I’m having, I wouldn’t be shocked to learn I’m a dandelion.