Deep in the caves of Exoplanet 48363 lives a tiny mouse-lizard hybrid, hiding from the megafauna on the surface. Most of the time the caves are dark, but eight times a year, one of the three suns shines its light down onto a carpet of life below. In a symbiotic relationship with the local plant, the mouse-lizard places its soft shelled eggs inside the plant, to grow safely until the rays of the sun open the plant and warm the eggs. The hatchlings then eat the single yellow flower, ingesting the plant spore and depositing it in other sections of the cave. #scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography