Oh. Oh my.
#YouFindARock. An actual rock for once, not a solitary mineral.
It’s shiny & irresistible.
You reach down and pick up the fist-sized shiny grey rock. It twinkles in the daylight.
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> Pet
You stroke your fingers across the satiny surface, appreciating both the smooth sensation beneath your fingertips and the gentle waves of the undulating foliation.
You could sit here all day petting this beauty.
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> Lick
You nibble at the phyllite, well-aware that while flavour is diagnostic for some minerals, licking is an act of idle curiosity for rocks with mixed composition.
You taste salty sea spray from the beach, but mostly enjoy the textures.
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> Analyse
Phyllite a mid-grade metamorphic rock, a slate or shale subjected to enough pressure and heat to re-orient its mica flakes into ultra-glittery alignment.
The wavy crenulation tells you it was floated, then pressure directions shifted & refilled it.
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> Snuggle
You cuddle the rock close, resting your cheek on its surface, and tighten your arms in a fierce hug.
You squeeze tightly. More tightly. Inhumanly tightly over geologic timescales. Your snuggle is a squish of epic proportions.
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> Squeeze moar
You unleash boundless affection, snuggle & squish beyond human limits until atomic bonds break & minerals realign within your grasp.
The sun rises & sets countless times, the very structure of the rock shifting as shiny phyllite metamorphoses into platy schist
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> Take
With deep satisfaction, you tuck this lovely demonstration of a fundamental rock type into your bag.
You reflect fondly that today’s adventure was a remarkably calm interlude to the multi-hazard chaos descending on North America.
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