pepperjack
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Minor point of order - microbes can be quite happy to eat metals; https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-grow-metal-eating-microbes-20160621/ as an example.
Amy may not know that, and unless she has access to microbes that are actively eating them she may not learn until later.
Major facepalm moment for her when she does find out though.
I read "bug," here, as shorthand for "microbe."She began to wonder if she could work up a bug that could eat metal; specifically, the metal in the oversized hands that were holding her. There was, she seemed to recall, such a bug in nature. If Mother Nature can do it, I can do it.