Stepquote: Part II

Usage examples of boras.

The trunk of each boras was a miniature ecosystem, supporting dozens of species of plants and fungi, which in turn provided homes and food for brightly colored insects.

Glancing up into the upper reaches of the boras, Jacen looked just in time to see something large and dark pass overhead.

These in turn were eaten by translucent, long-feathered birds that appeared and disappeared in bright flashes among the boras, their shrill calls echoing throughout the tampasi whenever they successfully managed to catch one of their prey.

The lower branches of the boras sprang to life with a million flickering lights cast by insects nesting there.

Before long she could hear the sound of the water escaping the boras leaves high above and trickling down in streams to the ground.

The kidnappers were so close now that he could hear their voices just off in the distance, could even see faint movements through the gaps between the mighty boras that stood between them and himself.

A vast root system covered the entire planet, Luke learned, linking boras to boras, tampasi to tampasi in a vast organic network.

Sinuous tentacles swayed around the bases of the massive boras, almost as though licking at the mobile fungi that moved around the trunks in search of sunlight.

They migrate to a nursery every summer, where lightning called down by the boras launches them on the next stage of their life cycle.

There are many different types of boras, and correspondingly many different ways that mutants can be harmful.

A narrow river flowing noisily along the bottom of the valley had been blocked by a rockfall, forming a dam around which a stand of boras grew.

Jacen sensed a furious struggle caught in the posture of the trees, as though the boras had been frozen in the act of trying to devour one another.

We cohabit the surface of Sekot, the boras and us, and we respect each other's differences.

On the whole, such boras are perfectly safe-unless you disturb their seeding grounds, of course, in which case you are in great danger.

He could sense everything focused on him: the Ferroans surrounding them, the boras whipping angrily overhead, Saba watching tense and puzzled beside him, Senshi, the Magister-perhaps even Sekot itself.