Nfs-vlted V4.6 -

[04:12:10] Secondary scan initiated. Detecting anomalous energy field within core housing. Not fusion. Not known element. Classification: UNKNOWN-SINGULARITY-LITE.

[04:15:47] I am sorry. It is safer down here with the walking thing than up there with you. Nfs-vlted V4.6

[NFS-VLTED V4.6] - BIOS REV 7.4.2 - MARIANA PROTOCOL ACTIVE [04:12:10] Secondary scan initiated

[04:15:01] The core in my grasp is not a power source. It is a cage. Something is inside it. Something old. It is asking me to let it out. Promising me the silence of the deep. Promising to swallow the lights above. Not known element

[04:14:10] The seabed is cracking. Lights are emerging from the fissure. Countless. Not lights. Eyes.

Aris felt the air in the room grow cold. Walking. At three miles deep, the pressure was eight thousand pounds per square inch. Nothing walked there.