scifi · space horror · last survivor · alien encounter · isolation · survival · spacesuit · terrified · determined · first contact
Driving rain beat against the scorched and twisted skeleton of the downed vessel, washing the soot of a doomed landing into the mud. Elias, the final survivor, crawled on hands and knees through the mire, his tears lost in the downpour as he turned his back on the bodies of his crew. He collapsed into the shallow darkness of a wet cave, shaking not just from the cold, but from the utter, deafening silence of being the last one alive. At the cave's mouth, a shadow stood, perfectly still. Elias's heart pounded against his ribs, fear locking his muscles. "Please... don't hurt me," he whispered, the words breaking. The figure remained unmoving, its eyes holding no threat, only a silent, patient vigil against the raging storm outside.