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Isonymph swung itself around the moons like monkey bars, leaping from one to the other with orbits and half-orbits. It moved so fast that its body would have cracked like a whip if it could.

At long last, the avatar's sprint came to an end. It circled the ring of Lex and slid to a halt where it started, just above the towering megastructure that was Ovaedis. There the carmine creature rested. 

It was shaped like a bulbous fungus, a many-faced head above a bell stalked with spindly limbs, but its shape was changing rapidly. Its texture was bizarre, like origami, or perhaps the knitted roots of a thicket. It had no true surface- Only fins and ribbons of living tissue, layer upon layer. Somehow, as it breathed, it didn't [i]move;[/i] it [i]furled.[/i]

The creature unfolded, and unfolded, and unfolded some more, without pausing or even really losing its form, whatever that happened to be. The more it opened, the more there were layered gills and tendrils to be opened, and what was new rapidly disappeared under a layer that had once been below it. Its size and silhouette were gradually replaced as if through a magician's trick- Everything hidden had been there all along, neat and perfect, waiting to come out.

Eventually the Isonymph settled on a shape, perhaps half again the height of a man, and covered itself with folds of translucent skin. It resembled... A flower with legs, maybe, or a human with a blossoming skull, or a virus of some kind.

It had a stem, or a torso. It was stretched at the waist and had neither leaves nor arms. At its lower end were jointed roots that branched at the tip, about eight or nine of them, each with two segments almost as long as its thorax was tall. Though its skin was pale, the life below was black and red, and threaded with purple. 

For a head, it had only an eyeless, sightless bloom of tissue, opening and closing, petals shuffling in and out of its bottomless fractal throat.

A change-eater drifted up with a curious glow. Isonymph inclined its head.

[color=lightcyan]"You're strange,"[/color] she opened.

[color=9e0b0f][b][i]"[s]Heh Heh Heh,[/s]"[/i][/b][/color] said the Flesh Lily.

The sister spun easy loops around her find. [color=lightcyan]"Where did you come from?"[/color]

[color=9e0b0f][b][i]"[s]Places. Nowhere. Dreams.[/s]"[/i][/b][/color]

[color=lightcyan]"Like... the ocean?"[/color]

[color=9e0b0f][b][i]"[s]More Like The Void.[/s]"[/i][/b][/color]

[color=lightcyan]"Oh,"[/color] said the Diaphane. [color=Lightcyan]"All my dreams are in the ocean."[/color]

[color=9e0b0f][i][b]"[s]There Are Other Seas,[/s]"[/b][/i][/color] said the isonymph.

The shapeshifter gasped- [color=lightcyan]"Where?"[/color] -then started forming teeth. [color=lightcyan]"Tell me!"[/color]

[color=9e0b0f][b][i]"[s]Heh Heh Heh.[/s]"[/i][/b][/color]

[color=lightcyan]"Don't tease me! I'll bite you,"[/color] warned the sister, who was now mostly jaws.

[color=9e0b0f][b][i]"[s]Come Back And I Might Show You,[/s]"[/i][/b][/color] said Isonymph.

[color=lightcyan]"Alright,"[/color] said the change-eater, with her curious blend of innocence and brutality. [color=lightcyan]"But I'm bringing friends."[/color]

[color=9e0b0f][b][i]"[s]Do,[/s]"[/i][/b][/color] said Isonymph, drifting back over the satellite. Gazing at the stars.