Moonlight: An Among Us Story (Book Two)

Day 6: The Laboratory

We all woke up at around 12 to 3 pm. All day, it was silent. We went back to sleep and woke up in the morning, and it was nothing but complete and utter destruction. Everyone was still alone and depressed. 1 of the 4 people that were on the trip last year had been killed.

And everyone.

Was on edge.

The Medical Bay, in Polus, is right beside the Laboratory. What we've gathered, living here for 5 days going on 6, is that Polus is a study and testing facility. There were potions and colorful liquids in the Specimen Room, and we are unsure what any of them do. There were decontamination areas at the end of long hallways - and they were the only ways in or out of the Specimen Room, so it was clearly important materials and things.

The Laboratory was connected to the Medical Bay. Well, technically, on Polus there isn't even a Med Bay. We've just called it that this whole time because it was what we are used to from the Skeld ship. In the Laboratory corner, there was a large telescope.

"Wonder what they used it for?" Michael asked when the two of us and Olivia woke up.

"To look at the stars, probably," Oliva chimed in.

"Look inside! Have you not yet?"

Michael went up the telescope and gasped. He turned around and looked at me. This was his dream. "Oh my gosh!"

This telescope is the farthest seeing telescope in the galaxy, according to a plaque on the wall beside it. "I can't see Jupiter! It sees right passed it; it's that far! Look, Rose-" and then he falls silent. He returns to the telescope and Olivia and I walk back into the Medical Bay portion of the Lab.

"I feel sick," Olivia said. "Not because of Rose- well, of course, because of Rose- but there's something else going on."

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"Like someone is planning to kill me."

"Well, Liv. Someone's been planning to kill you since the start of the trip. They've planned to kill us all and until there's a way home or a way we find and catch them, I don't see how they won't kill us all."

"No, no. But it's worse. Like someone is coming to kill me right now. Like this second; they're preparing to kill me!"

"I will stick by your side this entire time. All day. It'll pass."

"Not if I can't go to sleep. If you're with me all day you can NOT fall asleep tonight! I won't be able to myself, even. You need to watch me 24/7."

"What?" I say, trying to show that I don't want to.

"We're dating right?" she says. Oh dear god. This is one way to trap someone into something.

"Yeah," I say, going along with it.

"And you don't want me to die, right?"

"Yeah..."

"Then you'll watch over me. We can play a game at night time, I'm sure Michael will stay up with us."

"Sure," he says, leaving the telescope and coming over to us. "But first, I'm eating lunch."

Everyone's been sleeping a lot later than usual recently, and when we wake up it's lunchtime already. Michael throws on his helmet and walks out of the Medical Bay.

At lunch, everyone was finally setting in since Rose's death. Everyone ate outside today by where the dropship was before it took off.

"If people weren't dying and we weren't running out of food, I think I'd love it here," Allison says. "It's quite beautiful, really. Looks like I'm on the set of a Science Fiction movie."