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The Ethereal Expanse
Half-Dead Female

Half-Dead Female

When I go inside my body feels as though I passed through some kind of invisible wall of something.  It’s not thick enough to see or feel directly on your skin but can be sensed, however weird that sounds.  Disregarding that for another time I continue to walk forward. The walls, ceiling, and floor all have the look of the outside surface.  On my left and right side are weird boxes I spotted earlier made of the same material as the outside walls.  There are 1 on the left and 1 on the right.  There are some tubes coming out of the boxes that lead to some terminals on both sides. Other than those things there doesn’t appear to be anything else in the compartment.  I reach the other end and there is nothing there but a wall.  My gut tells me to touch it but common sense tells me that touching things you don’t know about can sometimes get you killed.  I think it over and my gut wins so I place my hand on the wall as I have done on the outside and wait to see if something happens.  After about a second I start to get the same sensation as before.  I once again try to pull my hand away and it is just as before, my hand is held in place.  Once I am able to I remove my hand and there is a glowing hand print that starts to slowly disappear, as before.  I wait a little longer and the wall began to vanish.  When it is gone I walk through to the other side and as soon as I take a couple of steps I notice a strong smell that reminds me of a mix between hot metal and burnt flesh. The smell is so overpowering that I stagger a bit and feel slightly nauseated. I attempt to mentally block the smell and proceed.  This compartment is rather different bigger than the previous one and judging from the shape outside, this is the last compartment.  There are as many as 12 consoles scattered around in this room.  I walk closer to one of the consoles on the side and notice that the buttons are all weird symbols that I have never seen before.  I slowly walk towards the center, around what looks like the biggest console in the compartment.  Once I get to the other side I froze in my tracks. 

Right in front of me appears to be some female, in her late twenties, wearing a dirty, bloodied and torn hospital gown lying face up in a pool of blood. She has multiple tiny wounds on her body, 2 circular holes on her upper torso which appear to be made from some kind of laser and a wound on the neck which looks like someone or something tried to strangle her.  I also notice that she is the source of the smell from earlier. What is really strange is that her skin is a light blue metallic color like she is an android or something like that.  How is it possible for someone to have that kind of skin? Maybe she is some kind of alien trying to take over mankind.  Naw, or else I would probably be dead already. I wonder if she is dead. A closer inspection reveals that she is still breathing.  A closer inspection also reveals that she has a nice sized bust!  I immediately lightly slap myself in the face for thinking such lewd thoughts. I am no doctor but it looks like she is dying. With that much blood loss, I don’t know how long she has left. I am both excited and wary of the possibility of an alien appearing and it is not because she is easy to look at, minus the wounds and blood. Ugh, shut up lewd thoughts….  While I am lost in thought I hear a beeping sound coming from one of the consoles behind me.  I turn and look at it.  In the center of the console is a glowing hand imprint. I approach and examine it and discover that it is identical to the ones that were left after I removed my hand before and looks like it is exactly my hand size.  I take a risk and put my hand on the glowing imprint.  As soon as I make contact instead of the warm tingling feeling I got last time I get a powerful surge from the console to my hand through my arm all the way up to my head.  I dropped my robot and put my hand on my head without realizing it. My head feels as though someone is trying to stick a whole bag of potatoes into a small tin can.  My hand is forced to stay in place as I endure the mind-numbing, head bashing pain.  I try to go back to the lewd thoughts in order to focus on something other than the pain.  It works and the pain is slightly lessened.  Once the pain ceased my hand was released and I kneeled panting from the force of the pulse with my other hand still on my head.  Once the pain had somewhat subsided I picked my robot up and stood.  I looked at the hand I put on the console to see how damaged it was even though there was no lingering pain and was quite surprised to see that there were no visible markings on it at all.  I turned around still marveled at my hand when I heard the half-dead female speak.

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She said, “The console that you placed your hand on sent a powerful concentrated electrical pulse that transfixed your brain with hundreds of tiny Nanobots to understand the spoken language of my people”. The voice is both very soft and warm but hardy with a slightly monotone sound to it.  But the words that she spoke sounded as if she was having difficulty speaking and her eyes stayed firmly shut displaying her deep focus on keeping the pain at bay. I said “Hmmm….Nanobots eh?  I heard about those before in one or two Sci-fi books, didn’t know they actually existed. So I can say with confidence that it is just a little bit creepy to have lots of little things crawling or swimming in my head doing what they want.  Is this safe? I am not going to die or something right?” She said with slight smile “I could explain the whole process to you but I don’t have much time and this was the quickest way for us to be able to communicate with each other. I am rather surprised at how calmly you’re accepting things that you don’t understand.”  I replied “I have watched plenty of movies and played more video games than I can remember so I am more or less conditioned for these kinds of situations.  I was a little surprised at first but I have a flexible mind and I am pretty accepting of things that most people would otherwise shun or deny.” She said “I understand and am glad that you are accepting of this.  I used part of my life essence to escape to here.” I sat there wondering, what the fuck I have gotten myself into.