A practical guide to the plants and animals that provide Glassmoon with food, medicine, memorial materials, and early warnings inside its maintained habitats.
Nothing lives casually on the exposed surface of Glassmoon. Every tree, herb, animal, and patch of lichen in Memorial Reach depends on a sealed garden, pressure habitat, or keeper-maintained passage.
Check the air seal before tending the life inside it. A healthy garden can hide a slow pressure loss until the plants and animals begin reacting to it.
Candlebark Cypress
These narrow trees grow beneath artificial lamps. Their roots hold garden soil in Glassmoon's low gravity, and their pale outer bark is burned during family remembrances.
Remove only bark that has already loosened. Cutting deeply can kill a tree that took decades to establish. Older gardens brace their cypress trunks with soft ties so a broken irrigation line or sudden pressure change cannot pull the roots free.
Bell Sage
Bell Sage has hollow leaves that make a faint chime when their water and air are balanced. A silent bed may be dry, flooded, too cold, or losing pressure. Check the garden instruments before harvesting it.
Keepers often plant Bell Sage near doors and service ducts. The leaves may react to a failing seal before an alarm reaches its threshold.
Candlewort
This yellow flower grows near memorial lamps and other warm fixtures. Its oil is used in focus tonics and remembrance preparations.
Candlewort spreads poorly without hand pollination. Leave every third flowering plant untouched, and do not assume a bright bed is a healthy one. Plants crowded around a warm lamp can exhaust their soil quickly.
Dust Aloe
The thick leaves store clean water and produce a gel used on skin abraded by pressure gear and fine glass dust. Cut one outer leaf at a time. A stripped plant may remain upright for several lamp cycles and then collapse.
Clinic keepers favor Dust Aloe because it survives short irrigation failures better than most imported medicine plants.
Lastlight Thyme
This low silver herb opens during the final lamp cycle before simulated night. Harvest it after the leaves open and before the lamps dim.
If it opens early, inspect the lamp timer and garden temperature. A whole bed opening at the wrong hour usually means the habitat changed, not that the plants learned a new schedule.
Duststep Hare
These small grazers feed on pale lichen between memorial slabs and inside older garden sections. Their broad feet leave little track. A bell causes them to freeze instead of running, which allows keepers to count them without driving them into a wall.
Moderate grazing keeps the lichen healthy. A habitat with no visible hares may have a damaged seal, fouled water, or a larger animal inside it.
Glassback Grazer
These compact herd animals eat lichen from open slabs. Fine bell-glass settles on their dorsal plates and hardens into a smooth crust. Older animals make a faint ringing sound when they walk.
A calm herd is a useful safety sign. If every glassback turns away from one section, inspect that section before entering it. The herd notices vibration, sharp dust, airflow, and changes in the floor that a person may miss.
Marrow Silver
Marrow Silver is not alive, but every habitat keeper must understand it. The ore runs through Glassmoon's fused crust and is used in pressure contacts, memorial wire, and other fine conductive work.
Dust from a worked vein must be kept out of garden vents, drinking water, animal feed, and exposed skin. Close the habitat intake before nearby mining or cutting begins. Reopen it only after the dust has settled and the filters have been checked.
Glassmoon's habitats are not decorations placed beside its memorials. They provide food, medicine, useful materials, clean air, and information about failures that instruments may not report yet.
Learn what healthy life looks and sounds like. A quiet sage bed, an early-opening thyme patch, or a herd facing the wrong direction may be the first warning that the room keeping you alive has begun to change.
