This mission feels weird. It’s difficult to describe, but I don’t like it. The new place is a lot more lifeful, so to speak. Though it doesn’t have nearly as much flora as the marsh. It’s like an abandoned city. Or so I imagine. No one said anything. The Remnants don’t give us names, they point to a place and we recover stuff. And if Kerian knows anything, she hasn’t said it. Zal is worried like me, but Teradoi just shrugs it off. Considering that man slept through the noises, I feel like nothing affects him.

I said this place is like an abandoned city, but only rocks resembling houses remain. There’s a lot of debris compared to the other locations, as if something rocked the whole place down. It doesn’t feel like the cause of an earthquake though, the ground is smooth and doesn’t have any cracks.

What really itches me, are the statues. They are shaped like people, most are destroyed, but. Fuck. It’s just not right. I cannot help but wonder if they are actual people. Some are in weird postures, others looking at their hands close together as if praying, most of them actually are. Was this place of the world overly religious before the Forgetting? The statues of people praying would make sense then.

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That’s what I tell myself.

Beyond the eeriness of the statues, what surprised me was how, foor the first time, Kerian told us not to pick up trash into the cargo.

Well, we still do, she just referred to rock and concrete debris. Apparently the Remnants are not that far gone. But considering how old they are, who’s to say? They are older than Tored.

The statues are really messing with me, but I think today I’ll sleep peacefully as the sounds are yet to torment us. I’m here on the lounge with Zal, we were waiting for the inevitable, but it would seem his teas are not needed for today. One day less of recoveries.

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Teradoi broke a statue.

He was recovering a heavy white metal box, and whilst doing so, he collided with a statue and it shattered on the ground.

My heart almost jumped out of my chest when he did so, I was nearby him you see, but there was something calming in seeing that they were just stone. I told myself that if they are purely made out of stone, then they cannot be people. There would have been some remains otherwise, right?

Kerian continued with her excursions like with the previous mission, but like unlike before, she would go far away from the ship, only barely coming back on twilight. Whatever she’s doing, it looks like she does not want to be seen.

That makes me want to know what she is doing.

Just morbid curiosity.