Location:Mid Ring, Vel'thari Containment — dead spot perimeter
Date/Time:Sparkfall, 9942 AZI — Day 138, 227 days remaining
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
Something had been watching the base for eleven days.
Jayde didn't see it. Didn't hear it. Didn't smell it or taste its chemical trace on the recycled air of the Resolute's corridors. She felt it. The sensation sat behind her sternum like a fishhook: predator, close, stationary. The Commander's instinct, honed across sixty years of combat in another life and sharpened to a blade edge by five months of fighting insects in this one. Something was out there. Something that wasn't moving. Something that watched.
