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The first light on Glade finds the settlement’s crew stumbling out of their sleeping grove bewildered, their nightwear vanished without a trace. Executive Hafner protests a night‑time prank, while the colonists scramble for replacement garments, their modesty shaken but spirits still stubbornly optimistic. The planet, praised by the Biological Survey as the most hospitable world yet discovered, now feels oddly hostile, its dark‑green trees and towering white blossoms casting strange shadows.

Only one specialist seems equipped to untangle the puzzle: biologist Dano Marin, a lone scientist among rugged builders and engineers. Pressed to explain a phenomenon that isn’t covered in any textbook, he combs the grove for evidence, testing theories from nocturnal insects to vapor‑secreting foliage, each more unsettling than the last. As he watches a sudden flash of bright eyes dart from the underbrush, listeners are left wondering whether the answer lies in the planet’s hidden ecology or something far more unsettling.

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