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(This is the second in a series of oral histories about the night the Contagion broke out on the Mordesh homeworld.)
My co-pilot was the one who figured out something was
going on first Heck, I might never have figured it out if Iwas
on my own. A Longhaul-class freighter doesn't just fly
herself, and I had dials, sticks, and gages to manage. But ol'
Mikee, he saw the way people on the ground weren't
walking around like they usually did. Some of them were, I
suppose, but we later figured out those folks were probably
dying. Most of them were running in groups in erratic ways.
He'd gotten me watching 'em too when we saw the killing
start Now the runners were biting and beating and
dismembering any living creature they could find, which
included their fellow Mordesh and some really unfortunate
pets and livestock.
If we hadn't just unloaded most of our cargo, I probably wouldn't have done it but something about the violence - the sheer madness of it you understand, the sudden horror of it- compelled me to act.
Mikee pointed out l should have listened to the news on the
wireless band. Today, the Everlife Elixir was supposed to turn
the Mordesh immortal. Victor Lazarin was gonna be the
biggest hero the universe had ever seen, the man who killed
death. Guess it went bad, huh?
So we swung the Arovolkin in low, looking for people who weren't crazy. Just to make sure we didn't regret leaving for the rest of our lives, you know what I mean? That's when we saw the girl, must have been six or seven years old if she was a day - screaming, crying for her parents, confused, terrified. But she wasn't running at anyone, Just from a half-collapsed building. I hit the landing lights, and we touched down just far enough away not to send the kid running away in terror.
Yashka didn't say much once she came onboard. I'm kind of
surprised she did, in the end. Two strange blue guys show
up out of the sky and try to take you into space after
watching your parents kill each other? Brave kid.
Of course, we all had a chance to regret it not long after
that. No sooner had we gotten our new passenger settled in
and restrained - just in case - than the biggest fleet I've ever
seen dropped into orbit from out of nowhere.
And they dropped in firing. We took three hits before I even
had time to raise the defensive screens. I had just enough
time to apologize to little Yashka before we crashed, and
she just nodded.
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Captain Barbio, Ekose Freighter Arovolkin
Location[]
This journal is located at 3100,-2883 in the Belabog Containment Camp