Miskatonic University Galactic Expedition 3304-3305 Day 3
20 Dec 2018LCU No Fool Like One
I spent the night sleeping fitfully, full of dark dreams that were so vivid that I did not know if I were asleep or awake. I was in my ship in witch space and heard my daughter whispering to me as the void swirled luridly around me. Her words were indistinct almost as if she were talking in an alien language. The ship groaned and shuddered as it was ripped out of hyperspace and I found myself in front of an old dead star giving off a baleful light. I turned on my FSS Scanner and started searching for stellar bodies. Listening carefully to the sounds of the planets I fancied I heard my daughter whisper my name as my scanner revealed an airless moon orbiting a bloated ringed gas giant that harbored ammonia based life forms. I set course for the moon firing probes as I approached. There in the mapping data I saw an anomaly, a crashed ship of alien design. Once more I heard my daugher whispering urgently in my ear. What she said I could not tell but I knew as sure as the darkness of the void that she was there on that ship.I touched down on the surface of a plateau ringed with jagged spires like the broken teeth in the maw of some cyclopean beast. There in the center emerging from a thick green mist was the broken body of a Thargoid Hydra, this gargantuam broken thing had left a trail of destruction behind it its organic pars stickily strewn around it. I have no recollection of leaving the ship but the next thing I knew I was climbing up to the milky central eye, grasping at oozing Thargoid entrails that coated my suit in the wet fluids of the broken ship. I peered through the milky aperture and saw something writhing within. The hear on my back stood on end and I felt a primordial terror. I pulled a rock pick from my tool belt and began to tear at the milky aperture, ripping it apart. It suddenly split open right down the middle and there in front of me covered in steaming green slime was my daughter. Her eyes flicked open and she screamed Daddy, then tentacles enfolded here and reached up through the aperture pulling me in through the slimes. Instead of terror I now felt peace, I closed my eyes, my daughter and I would finally know peace together.
Then I woke with start. It had all been a dream.