// SIGNAL Maxine Grace
Polymite-8: Experimental self-replicating amber-like polymer designed to preserve organic matter. Reacts with Mother Tree acid. Turns milky white when dissolving. Preserves consciousness in stasis but mutates eyes to solid amber.
GoldenShift Era: Earth +10,000,000 years after human extinction event. Bioluminescent jungle, amber megafauna, no mammals. Air heavy with spores. Two rivers confluence is sacred ground.
Mother Tree: Planet-spanning organism. Black gnarled roots secrete milky white acid that melts Polymite-8. Not hostile — gardening. Awakens specimens when ecosystem needs them. Sizzles amber on contact
Logline: A 27-year-old xenobotanist wakes after 10 million years trapped in amber to a Earth where the forest eats stone and glows — and she's the lantern everything hunts.
Protagonist, Xenobotanist