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Araneus

Araneus is a genus of common orb-weaving spiders. It includes about 650 species, among which are the European garden spider and the barn spider.

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Leaning back on its hind four legs, Araneus lifted the pyramid delicately with its four forelimbs.

After several seconds, with a voice like a breath from the grave, Araneus groaned, “No time!

She stepped briskly between Konya and Araneus, then snapped at Lense, “Wake up your patient, Doctor.

In the absence of anything that even remotely resembled proof, she was at a loss for how to carry out her orders to determine whether Araneus or his foes—or both—were lying to the captain.

On the left was a detail from the pyramid that Araneus had brought aboard.

Only after she’d determined what its outer carapace was supposed to look like was she able to see that Araneus had, in fact, been terribly burned.

Less than a minute later, he was scrambling into sickbay, where the still incapacitated Araneus lay sprawled over most of the main room.

It was an orb web, spun by the simple European garden spider, Araneus diadematus.