The creatures in the caves look very much like small and spineless kites. The yellow light from the walls, however, is turned, when passed through the bodies of the creatures, to a vivid aquamarine. When they cling to the walls, light from the phosphorescent walls comes right through them. The creatures in the caves are translucent. The walls of the caves in their depths are phosphorescent. The caves of Mercury are cozily warm in their depths. In that way, they eat the song of Mercury. The creatures cling to the singing walls of their caves. The song their planet sings is important to them, for the creatures are nourished by vibrations. There are creatures in the deep caves of Mercury. There are those who think that the song was quick, wild, and brilliant once – excruciatingly various. Mercury will hold a single note in the song for as long as an Earthling millennium. Mercury has no atmosphere, so the song it sings is for the sense of touch.
It is the tension between the hot hemisphere of day-without-end and the cold hemisphere of night-without-end that makes Mercury sing. That side is a forest of giant blue-white crystals, aching cold. That side has always faced the nothingness of space eternal. The other side faces the nothingness of space eternal. The planet Mercury sings like a crystal goblet. A more gracious creature would be hard to imagine. HARMONIUM – The only known form of life on the planet mercury.
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