the future never waits | Glowfic Constellation

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"Bogs are acidic instead of having good soil so some of the plants get their nutrients elsewhere."

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"By eating bugs!"

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"Yeah! And pitcher plants are pretty too."

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"I don't think I've ever seen a pitcher plant. I mean, not in real life."

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"I have!"

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"Did you watch it eat something?"

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"No," she admits.

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"Aww. I would've fed it a bug."

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"It was too far from the walkway to reach and the guide said if we tried anyway we could hurt something."

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"Hurt yourself...?"

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"Maybe but more likely some important plants or the sphagnum moss. The sphagnum moss is really important."

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"What's important about it?"

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"It's what makes a bog a bog and not a lake."

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"...definitionally, or by ecological effects, or what?"

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"By ecological effects."

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"Huh."

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"It makes a peat layer that turns stuff acid."

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"You sure know a lot about bogs!" he says, impressed.

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"I like learning about cool stuff."

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"Me too."

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"I hope the stuff they want to teach us in Battle School is cool."

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"Probably it is."

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Nod. "Why'd you decide to go?"

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"...if I say 'because it's thaneish' you're not going to know what that means, are you."

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