Piper In The Woods: The Seduction of Stillness

On a remote asteroid outpost, trained professionals begin refusing to work. Instead, they spend their days sitting silently in the sun, claiming they have become plants. What begins as an isolated psychological case soon spreads across the garrison, threatening the stability of an entire operation designed to protect humanity from alien contamination.

Doctor Henry Harris is assigned to uncover the cause. His investigation leads him beyond medical explanations and into the surrounding wildern...