Helpful. But in only a few more turns and a short selection of strangely shaped corridors, the Station opens up into a plain circular chamber. There's no furniture, but the segmented walls of the chamber must be compartments of some kind. Cathaway makes her way to one and draws it back by the handle, pulling a long slab-like bed from its slot on the wall.
"Take a seat as we prepare the equipment."
All the compartments and cabinets are unmarked, but Cathaway seems to know exactly which ones to open and what to draw out of them. It takes her only a few minutes to assemble what she requires and bring her tools back to the bedside by way of a small hovering tray. There's a stimgun, a dose of some kind of liquid in a canister clearly meant to fit the gun, and a two glittering white bars roughly ten inches in length. She loads the canister into the injection gun and primes it.
"No biopsy, we promise. But we need to stimulate the symbiote so it reads on our equipment. This will temporarily dye it. We can distract you with a pleasant memory if you'd like us to."
no subject
Helpful. But in only a few more turns and a short selection of strangely shaped corridors, the Station opens up into a plain circular chamber. There's no furniture, but the segmented walls of the chamber must be compartments of some kind. Cathaway makes her way to one and draws it back by the handle, pulling a long slab-like bed from its slot on the wall.
"Take a seat as we prepare the equipment."
All the compartments and cabinets are unmarked, but Cathaway seems to know exactly which ones to open and what to draw out of them. It takes her only a few minutes to assemble what she requires and bring her tools back to the bedside by way of a small hovering tray. There's a stimgun, a dose of some kind of liquid in a canister clearly meant to fit the gun, and a two glittering white bars roughly ten inches in length. She loads the canister into the injection gun and primes it.
"No biopsy, we promise. But we need to stimulate the symbiote so it reads on our equipment. This will temporarily dye it. We can distract you with a pleasant memory if you'd like us to."