"There is also a small nymph, which is black and cream, and an adult pied shieldbug, which is black and white: it is as if it is watching over its offspring – tiny orange-coloured nymphs that are in the flowers of the white dead-nettle."
"This activates nano-capsules -- each one about a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair -- containing the necessary chemicals for the choice of drink: tropical orange-coloured, exotic mango-flavoured with a touch of stimulants and omega - 3, 6 and 9 oils, for example."
"After awhile he came to see that the destroyer would cross the imaginary line between the centres of gravity of the two suns approximately midway, which meant that they would pass a few thousand miles closer to the surface of the orange-coloured giant since it was considerably larger than the blue dwarf."