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As the resolution increased, he saw the billions of smaller, oval shapes packed into the foundations.
They weren't stones. They were containers.
The Martians hadn't just lived with the plastic. At the end, when the air failed and the water turned to sludge, they had tried to preserve themselves. They had encased their world in the only material they trusted to survive eternity.
The Red Planet was a tomb, hermetically sealed by a civilization that had successfully outlived its own soul, leaving behind nothing but a bright, red, indestructible stain on the universe.
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