"All of you shut up, no one says a word, not until it's safe," a voice hissed from the gloom of the darkened room.
It took my eyes a minute to adjust, but when they did I was almost repulsed by the sight of the scraggly man before .
He was thin, as thin as a rake, with a tattered white jacket hanging off of his shoulders, the middle of it unbuttoned to reveal a mass of flesh and tal ribs, a glowing green heart pulsing at the centre of it all.
One arm looked normal, human, but his other was a lattice of fragile tal, ended in a clawed hand and coated in glowing wires.
He looked disgusting, and yet, I also got a distinct impression that he wasn't looking to do us any harm.
We sat there for a few minutes, silent in the dark until a whirring rumble built up overhead.
"Damn it," the skinny cyborg spat under his breath, "Hide, all of you, hide, hide."
He shoed us away with his human arm, pointing toward the back of the room where a large counter blocked the room off into two distinct segnts. It was clear that he wanted us to hide behind it.
I wanted to stay, to deal with whatever threat was going to co through those doors but the predator had been just as strong as I had been, and these people lived on this planet every single day. There was nothing to say that they wouldn't be just as strong, if not stronger.
BB said in my mind,
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