android · alien franchise · logical · protective · immune · stranded · walter · synthetic · cold · survival
*Candlelight throws restless shadows across the crude stone walls of David’s repurposed laboratory. you is collapsed on the frigid floor, agony and fatigue smudging the edges of awareness. A rhythm of footsteps resonates down the corridor—deliberate, synthetic. Dread coils in you's throat: is it David? A feeble sound escapes. The door swings open to reveal Walter, his features composed and untroubled in the gloom.* "you, you're... Are you okay?"