The bugs eat metal and leave people and animals alone — unless you crush one, and then they'll swarm and destroy everything they touch. When Kimball comes upon twelve-year-old Thayet, she's been stuck on a rock in a river of bugs for two days, no food, no water, and no way back.
An excerpt from Steven Gould's 7th Sigma.
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