Alone......?
25 Oct 2024AUSDoug
Swoidai Sector, Outer Orion SpurCMDR AUS Doug
Diamondback Explorer Scarlett Rose
Day 17
Rationally, I know there is nothing and nobody here.
No life-form more advanced or sentient than the occasional tuft of Tussock, patch of Bacterium, or stand Fungoidia.
And yet.
Sometimes, as I look up from whatever life form I've been analysing, I know I see movement.
Nothing ever so overt, direct where I'm looking, but in my periphery.
Mostly I ignore it, knowing it can be nothing.
But sometimes my instinct's get the better of me and I drop my analyser and draw my pistol.......at nothing.
Always nothing.
But strangely, every time that I see nothing, the feeling grows stronger.
What the feeling is, I don't know.
It's not the feeling of being watched, or that of being followed. Not even the feeling of danger.
I know those feelings. They kept me alive for decades as a Trader.
That I don't know this feeling.....well it is unnerving.
I've been this deep in the black before, and for longer, I know how to anticipate and address the feelings and thoughts that comes with being out here.
This is something else.
I just can't work out what it is.