!aaawwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Connor/Abby and Connor/Science melding so perfectly!

*adds to Memories*

>Standing together, dark and massive, they were like a huge, alien guard of honour.
and if anyone knows alien honor guards, it'd be Conor. ;)

>The sample from the parking station? It definitely had a soft, squishy…violet look about it.”
my first thought was "velvet worm?" mostly because of the corrosives...and spiders have exoskeleton. that and -

>The sample from the parking station? It definitely had a soft, squishy…violet look about it.”
well, island life can afford to be gaudy.

>occasionally a group of nodule-like feet seemed to drop down,
Connor, if anything remotely resembling an eye looks at you, while wings sprout up, run - run like the dickens! ;)


my guesses about the Softbodies:
* surviving Edicarian fauna
* new Phylum, if not new Kingdom of animal life
* the severity of the modifications required for octopi or jellifish (or tunicates?) to take to the land.

ps: you discovered them, so you get to name them.

ps: I'll be back. this was great enjoyment to read.