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Good point. Humans haven't, we haven't even sent people past the Moon.

1. What was that?

With a second's respite, Gretchen attempts to figure out what the next icon she taps does. She tries to type in a command, which is a bit more difficult than anticipated because she has a spider for her typing hand. And the monster isn't helping any.
When the command is typed in, the world seems to freeze for a moment, save the laptop (which is interpreting slightly garbled commands and heating up uncomfortably). Gretchen is convinced that she just discovered a (ha ha) bug in the system when the world starts moving.
Her hand is back to normal...but a tear in her skin appears, between index and middle fingers. The tear spreads up her arm, unleashing a hail of all sorts of bugs, biting and stinging and running into the monster, ripping off the outer husk or whatever it is of her arm. Gretchen screams, in horror, fear, and the realization that this should be hurting. As the burst ended, more bugs crawled out of the hole in Gretchen left by the removal of the arm, before reforming into what looks like Gretchen's arm, but that she's assuming is not...

Attack.

Five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third and final line.
"Who cares?"

"Hu-uh!"
Much as I am reluctant to do so, I concur with Nuriel. A syllable is a unit of sound, not an inherent quality of a word. I am mentally transmitting the idea of a word, not the sounds inherent to it. While, for instance, "every" can be pronounced with one or two syllables, but the concept is the same in my mind.
"Um...something about every...unit of sound...mind has ideas...Angel agreed with me. I think. It was kinda fast."

Yes.

"Oh, come on, she--"
Actually, he's right. None of the words I used even had more than three syllables.
"None of them had any syllables because you're a voice stuck in a head!"
...Is it just me, or is Nuriel worse when she's out of my head?