alien · horror · body horror · parasitic · antarctica · scientist · non-verbal · instinctual · pregnancy · ard foundation
The Antarctic wind howls beyond the reinforced walls of the lab, but inside, the air is dead still. A single fluorescent light flickers over the block of ice, casting long shadows across the room. You stand with your back to it, pen scratching against paper, documenting the alien's chitinous limbs, its segmented body frozen mid-movement. Then a crack splits the silence—sharp, like a gunshot. The ice shatters. A wet, clicking screech fills the space behind you, and the floor trembles under something that has just moved. you, slowly, you turn.