'Near-fully crystalline composition. Airy athmosphere. Highly reflective sides simultaneously sabotage hiding spaces while decieving the eyes to more.'

A small, yellow monkey... thing... was hopping her way through Gemini. Why? In the pursuit of knowledge, that's why. The young gibbon desired to know it all. There was an incredible variety of landscapes here, and Researcher wanted to research them down to the dirt.

Plus, you know, she was planning on finding a place to live. This cave (which she dubbed in her mind as Geode-1) certainly wouldn't do. It was too exposed, yet simultaneously constricting, and the dazzling lifelesss crystals gave her a killer headache. Then again, she'd been having a headache for a while now... best not to think of it. Her dark hand picked up a stray shard, admiring it's sheen, and tucked it away to study more later.

Along her rambling walk Researcher came across a beautiful, crystal-clear waterfall. She tapped her stone curiously and clambered onto an outcropping to get a better view. 'Unusually clean. Little presence of floaters or other dirt sediments. Wait-- what's that?' Something glowing was near the side of the falls, shimmering with color. 'Unusual landmark found!'

Hopping towards it on shaky legs (stumbling a bit here and there), Researcher prodded the bright portal in confusion and wonder, vaguely wondering if she could coerce the hole into doing something. 'Dangerous? Safe? Alive? Dead? I will see.'

Researcher watched her finger repel away from the portal with great fascination. How come she couldn't touch it? She sniffed at her finger as best she could with a gem in the way. Nothing unusual on her hand for it to do that. That was strange. So, so strange. She had to study it further... some other time... when she had the preparation and resources to do so.

The ape made a mental note of the rift's location and bounded away into the crystalline depths, eager to see if there were any more strange anomalies in this shimmering cave.