After a long silence a face appears in the window. you recognize her immediately: Amelia. a loader. her face is lumpy with bruises and one eye is almost swollen shut.

“If you turn out to be changed, or you try to get me out of here, I’ll kill you.”

There’s a hiss as the hatch opens. She backs away, holding a titanium pry bar ready to swing. Once you’re inside she closes and locks it again.

“Let me see your eyes.” She checks you out again. Satisfied, she retreats to a nest of emergency blankets and opened ration pouches.

“You’re the only one up? Who woke you?”

When you tell her you don’t know she just nods. “Probably Ari. Looking for converts.” She realizes you don’t know anything about what’s going on and fills you in to the best of her ability:

“Three days ago we encountered an unexplainable spacecraft. It was like made out of light. I didn’t see it, I was back here, I just heard about it. There was some kind of conversation with it using flashing lights, and the Captain- that idiot- agreed to a meeting. I didn’t see this either, it was just for the Captain and Dr. Neilsen. I heard the aliens just looked like light. Like a shimmer in the air. They talk to you right inside your head, you don’t hear them with your ears. They made some offer to change us? All hell broke loose. Some people agreed to it right away. Some people got dragged to it. Fights broke out. I locked myself in here. I’m staying right here ‘til the ship goes boom.” She tells you that you ‘re welcome to stay or you can move along, but if you leave you can’t come back.