The Last Gospel
“Their intercom was virtually inaudible with the external speaker deactivated, though they instinctively talked in low voices. ‘Jack, I thought you said nothing else would be living in here.’ Costas moved to the edge of the chamber, and peered along the line of the dromos tunnel towards the cave at the other end. Jack crawled up behind him. Their headlamps were still switched off, but they had activated the night-vision goggles inside their e-suit helmets. There was just enough natural light for the sensors to work, not enough to be discernible to the naked eye but enough for Jack to make out Costas’ form in front of him, speckly and green, an eerie apparition that seemed to be constantly forming and re-forming with every movement. It made sense that there would be light coming from cracks and fissures leading outside, where the archeologists’ probe had reached into the cave somewhere ahead of them.
‘You’re sure it was a torch?’ ‘Positive. I was looking in the opposite direction, while... you were communing with our dead lady.MoreLess
‘You’re sure it was a torch?’ ‘Positive. I was looking in the opposite direction, while... you were communing with our dead lady.MoreLess
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