Human After All

Archive Log: 20

The winding corridors which led into long forgotten dark spaces passed by quickly as everyone picked up their paces, and ran as quickly as they could; the ghostly green holograms shifted and ran, only to pause and then look around before running again. It was as if they were running from something, some unseen object, being or something else entirely. Some movements seemed jerky, panicked as they continued to run down corridors, all the while the group followed as quickly as they could. These things, whatever they were, were incredibly tall. They outdid them on height by a long shot, their long strides easily equalled up to three of theirs. Yet eventually an end did come, the image of one tripped and fell and with that, it disappeared.

Before them now was a wall, a door even. A dark crease could be seen which signalled to them that it was a door, only it was unknown to them how they could open it. Yet it wasn't the door which had grasped their attention, it was the form which remained on the floor. Dusty, grey, ashen and sunken in, it was a body of the holographic being which had tripped and fell, and subsequently beheaded itself. Everyone hesitantly skidded to a halt and looked down at the form on the floor.

Elizabeth was the first to exclaim in excitement over the clear evidence before her, there was some founded truth to her thesis. There was a body, who could dispute her and Charlie's reasoning now? "We found them!" She said, her voice quiet, yet full of wonder and excitement as she leaned down to looking at the suited corpse. An almost skeletal like structure – much like that of the interior of the ship – was on its suit, ribs stood out against the charcoal colour.

"What do you mean, them?" Sean asked, his voice not sounding as wonder filled as the doctor's. He looked almost worriedly to the form, then around him at the group. They all still looked in awe and astonishment at what was really before them. It was clear that none of them had even contemplated, or contended to see anything.

"It is them, Eli." Charlie said while he stepped close to Elizabeth's side as he knelt to get a better look. He looked up slowly when he noticed the dark crease, "It looks like a door, and he's been decapitated by it." He looked around and back at the group. Frowning slightly at the sight of odd markings on the wall he pointed a torch in its direction. "David, please tell me you can read that."

David tilted his head and eyed the markings up. "Perhaps." He replied at length.

"No. No. I'm out of here!" The sudden outburst from the redhead caused most to look at him with confusion, Alma who had been standing by his side suddenly jumped. She honestly wasn't expecting to suddenly get shouted in the ear. Considering Fifield appeared to be on the verge of a breakdown, she slowly edged away. She didn't want to be caught up in a tantrum, of any sort or form. Feeling a hand on her arm she looked up, David had moved away from where he was about to inspect the markings on the wall and pulled her a little closer to himself. Which was ultimately probably a good thing considering the sudden turning and stomping demonstrated by Fifield.

"Hey, Fifield! Where you going?" Was called out to him, not that it did a lot, other than slow him down, he did stand for a moment or two before turning back with a determined look on his face as he stared Elizabeth down.

"What? Look, I'm just a geologist! I like rocks! I love rocks! Now it's clear you two don't give a shit about rocks. But what you do seem to care about is gigantic dead bodies, and I don't really have anything to contribute in the gigantic dead body area! I'm gonna go back to the ship, if you don't mind." He ranted out with a scathing tone as he frowned deeply and then turned and looked at the others. "Anyone want to join me, hey?" He mainly seemed to direct this to Rafe, he'd taken to crouching on the ground looking reasonably pale and distant. It seemed he had similar thoughts, which he was thankful he didn't have to voice because he got beaten to it. "You staying?"