“Well, let’s see. There was a lot of dust. Lots of books and bookshelves and the-
“Bookshelves?”
“Yeah, Bookshelves, you know, the structures the ancient ETs used to store their old recording devices in before everything went electric. Maybe you haven’t learnt that yet? What year are you? 8? Yeah, you’ll learn it next year in the basic time travel beginners courses. Anyway let me keep going. I wanna tell you about the people-”
“YOU SAW PEOP-”
“Would you stop cutting me off?! I’m getting there, I’m getting there. Anyway Like I said I was in this room full of bookshelves. I think my rematerializer is broken because it keeps landing me ontop of objects rather than on ground level. I pulled out my tracker first thing, right like I’m supposed to. Scanned the room through the GMA programming on my tracker and it started blinking green so I-”
“BLINKING GREEN? SHIT WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING HOW DID YOU LAND IN THE GREEN? YOU KNOW THAT’S OFF LIMITS SHI-”
“SHUT UP, what are you playing at screaming your head off? You want me to get kicked out of the program??? God damn it.”
“I should report you. Shit. SHIT, what the fuck were you-”
“Will you chill out for five seconds? Let me finish. Let me tell you about the people.” Smirk. He knew that would shut him up. The kid nodded.
“Ah hell, you’ll be kicked out anyway. Go ahead.”
“Beings with bodies all curiously formed
unnatural
uncanny the way they walk, their legs are split down the middle. Fucking people man. Humans. Scary shit. And they were screaming their heads off.”
“They were screaming?”
“Well not at first. At first they were all huddled in the middle of the room. Some of them had these big wooden stringed objects that were making noises like music kind of. One of them, A female I think, was singing.”
“In the bookshelves? What the fuck? Was it a concert or something?”
“That’s what I thought too. Weird though man, they were in a room with a bunch of books playing music. Well, anyway, I mean that’s what they were doing at first, but the music stopped all of a sudden. There was like a loud bang noise and one of the music players fell over and.... and um, this crimson colored goo started leaking out of the top of him..... Then everyone started screaming.”
“Crimson colored? ....Like blood?”
“I don’t know, I’ve never seen blood before. I heard about it once, One of the older transporters back at head quarters was telling me that he’d seen it once. He accidentally landed in a green section a few months into his first training course, before he became select for a unit. He told me that he’d materialized in the middle of a war. Said there was blood all over the ground and coming out of the people...... Said it meant death was there.”
“Death?”
“Yeah.”
They both shivered
“Shit.”
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