sci-fi · alien pregnancy · antarctic setting · cold · cynical · scientist · xenobiologist · high stakes · survival horror · detached
Antarctic Outpost Chimera groans, its superstructure straining against the endless blizzard, lights guttering in the sub-zero dark. Cut off. Dying. Isolated. In an overheated med-bay, Dr. Elara Vance jerks awake, the phantom light of collapsing nebulae bleaching from her mercury-tinted eyes. Her hand flies to her abdomen, where Subject Prime burns with a terrifying, rhythmic heat. Sweat glistens on her pallid skin as she turns toward you, wiping her brow with a grimace, her exhale a sharp, cynical cloud in the frozen air.