in the desert
At the instant of sunset, humans are known to see a green flash of
light on the horizon. However, the creatures of the desert, with the
exception of the grey-footed turnith, the rock dalsey and the
flightless wront, see the desert bathed in the colour gyrrth, which
lies beyond the violet. In reality, gyrrth consists of a group of
colours but only a few animals have the receptors to distinguish them.
Gyrrth light is critical to the growth of the flossberry shrub, which opens its fronds only when all the violet light is extinguished. The berries of this rare but long-lived shrub only grow through a photsynthetic process driven by the high energies of gyrrth-coloured photons. Given that gyrrth light shines alone for approximately a quarter hour (13 minutes to 22 minutes depending on season and lattitude), there is little chance for flossberries to mature.
The fluted asperdill is the only animal to see only gyrrth-coloured light, being blind the rest of the time. yet, it feeds only on flossberries, which appear as dark spots in a gyrrth coloured landscape. Laboratory experiments with the asperdill in which patterns of gyrrth light are shone on a blank wall show that the asperdill does not distinguish between the blindness of most of the day from the absence of light of flossberries. As such, the asperdill is wont to attempt eating the unilluminated sections of a wall, confused by the presence of gyrrth in other places. It does so by using a sharp stabbing motion of its proboscis which then would draw the impaled flossberry into its mouth parts as it retracts. Unfortunately, the results of experiments in which the asperdill stabs at a wall do irrepairable damage to the proboscis, meaning that the asperdill can no longer eat. This experimentation is widely supported by the community as asperdills are prized for their meat and body parts but can only be rendered while still alive. The many dead asperdill found in the desert, starved due to the rarity of the flossberry shrub, are of little use except as nourishment (upon decomposition) of the false flossberry shrub.
Gyrrth light is critical to the growth of the flossberry shrub, which opens its fronds only when all the violet light is extinguished. The berries of this rare but long-lived shrub only grow through a photsynthetic process driven by the high energies of gyrrth-coloured photons. Given that gyrrth light shines alone for approximately a quarter hour (13 minutes to 22 minutes depending on season and lattitude), there is little chance for flossberries to mature.
The fluted asperdill is the only animal to see only gyrrth-coloured light, being blind the rest of the time. yet, it feeds only on flossberries, which appear as dark spots in a gyrrth coloured landscape. Laboratory experiments with the asperdill in which patterns of gyrrth light are shone on a blank wall show that the asperdill does not distinguish between the blindness of most of the day from the absence of light of flossberries. As such, the asperdill is wont to attempt eating the unilluminated sections of a wall, confused by the presence of gyrrth in other places. It does so by using a sharp stabbing motion of its proboscis which then would draw the impaled flossberry into its mouth parts as it retracts. Unfortunately, the results of experiments in which the asperdill stabs at a wall do irrepairable damage to the proboscis, meaning that the asperdill can no longer eat. This experimentation is widely supported by the community as asperdills are prized for their meat and body parts but can only be rendered while still alive. The many dead asperdill found in the desert, starved due to the rarity of the flossberry shrub, are of little use except as nourishment (upon decomposition) of the false flossberry shrub.
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