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The rust doesn't want to kill her. It wants to convert her. Anya Oxi smiles, stepping closer to the cracking glass. She has realized that oxygen is the breath of animals, but oxidation is the breath of geology . To fight the rust with sealants and scrubbers is to deny the planet its nature.

She opens a small vial around her neck. Inside is a flake of pure, unoxidized iron—the last piece of the old world. She touches it to the glass. anya oxi

"Don't anthropomorphize the corrosion."

"Oxi, get back from the glass," comes the voice of Commander Vale over the intercom. The rust doesn't want to kill her