Day’s keep coming and going, I guess. The complex is big and there are no lights whatsoever. We are trying to map it, mainly to not get lost, but it’s difficult. We have decided to scratch walls with a crowbar to guide ourselves to the ship. The worst part of the recoveries is going outside. The snowstorm is getting worse. It’s only about a hundred meters to the ship, but the winds are strong enough to sent most recoveries flying, and the cold doesn’t fall behind. Our suits are insulated in every possible way, but I still feel the cold in my bones. It’s survivable inside the complex, but the moment I step outised I start to freeze. I know that in a few minutes I could die.

Kerian spends most of her time inside the cargo bay, examining the machines Teradoi and I recover. I know near nothing about machines, even aftert a month I have troubles with the computer, but I can tell they are advanced. Maybe even more so than any machine on the ship or the orbital stations. The Forgetting was a long time ago and not many Remnants remain from that time, but I feel like this technology is lost. This is something worth recovering.

But that only makes it worse, why spend almost a month recovering trash then? Why let Zal die doing so?

We all carry recovered crowbars to defend ourselves, but I don’t know if that will do something. We don’t even know if something killed Kal, and because I was the only one to see the corpse and didn’t brought anything with me, neither Teradoi and Kerian believe that I actually found it. Nor I blame them. In some way, I wish I didn’t. but I needed the closure.

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For the first time since our first mission I feel our work is worth something, but that feeling is not worth the death of someone. When my contract ends, I’ll not let this matter slide.

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Kerian has moved the computer outside of the ship. She did that whilst Teradoi and I were on the complex. I don’t know why she did that and she’s refusing to answer. The best I got out of her was “climate data recompilation” but that sounds like a load of bullshit. And no matter what I said, because Teradoi didn’t care about it, she wouldn’t let me carry it inside the ship.

The computer is right now on the entrance of the complex, I don’t know how it keeps working to be honest. Machines require electricity but right now the computer isn’t plugged to anything, does it have an internal battery or something? And yes, now I have to write my entries before entering the ship for the night, this means it’s now even harder to write because the suits gloves are really thick. Not that I’m blaming the suit though, I would freeze to death if it weren’t because of it. I’m just pissed at Kerian, why is she being such a bitch?

Nothing happened today, but the complex is big, not even in the two remaining days we’ll be able to explore it all. There’s a big hole in a wing though, I threw a peeble and it took a solid half minute to reach the bottom. I won’t do anything about it. Fuck spelunking. I don’t have any equipment for that and I’ll most likely die from the fall than whatever killed Zal.

Two days remaining, that keeps me going. I’m out for the day, im freezing.