Eye Opening? Or Just More to Learn

"Jaison...? Daren...? Is that you?"

Ethan edged slowly towards the shattered remains of the thin wooden door that had once led to the back storage and delivery room. Looking through the door, he gave an involuntary gasp at the carnage inside. Boxes torn open, pieces of plastic wrap covering everything, a thin layer of dust that might once have been cardboard boxes covers everything. The refrigerator in the back for employees, an old one made out of metal, stands dented all over with a big hole in the front straight through the door. A black softly pulsing mass, almost fluidlike, kind of like your dear grandmother's turkey gravy, is splatted all over the room, with what looks like a trail leading both to and from the back loading dock. A man stands in the middle of the room, covered in a heavy hazardous material suit, examining the trail out of the room.

"Who are you?" Demanded Ethan, raising the shield in his hands threateningly.

The man jumped and spun around, "My apologies, I didn't know anyone was still alive here."

"Well we are!" yelled Kaley, supporting Karina, "and if we don't get some answers soon..."

"You may put the inhibitor down, it doesn't work on humans," The man said to Ethan, who had begun making threatening gestures with the shield, "and yes, I am human, and I am Lieutenant Colonel McDouglas." Making a sweeping gesture with his hand around the room he added, "and this, is the Drakt."

"The what? This black stuff?" Ethan asked, making a move towards a large splotch of it on the wall.

"Don't touch it!" Yelled the Lieutenant Colonel.

"Wait.... What happens if we touch it?" Questioned Kaley, still holding Karina.

Shaking his head sadly, the Lieutenant turns from looking at the spot Ethan had moved towards, "After a while you die, not in the way most people think, which is that you are simply dead. In a way, you are still alive, you can think, you can feel, you can see, but that is all. The Drakt slowly begins taking over the processes in your body. Some bodies simply become nutrients for the breeders of the Drakt, your body slowly being broken down and passed into the orifice, but others are used as soldiers, augmented by the Drakt inside them, or carriers, looking just like us but invisibly controlled and passing Drakt to others."

"Does... does this happen... one hundred percent of the time that you touch it? How much do you have to touch?" Asked Karina, a little shakily, as Kaley starts slowly shivering.

"Yes, as far as we can tell it does, and it doesn't matter how small.... why do you ask?"

Karina simply points to a large black spot on Kaley's hand.

"Dear goodness help you, lady."


Greetings and Salutations,

Nice to be doing this again, though I cannot promise it will be every week, I'm in a more difficult and time consuming university so I'll do the best I can. I'm thinking no more Saturday posts for a bit, but we'll see how that goes. I might start switching off topics every week, one week another bit of the story, the next a more.... traditional post for me. Well, until next time,

Farewells and Valedictions,
Eoin Anndra Davis