[My first attempt at doing something more spooky! This is an original character, who I spawned from a combined inspiration born from H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness and Pride's shadows from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]
Elighan
The heavy doors to the observation chamber slid open slowly, revealing a space split into two distinct sections. The first was a control room; banks of monitors displaying vital readings, thermal imaging, and what appeared to be seismic activity measurements. Several technicians in white coats fussed over the systems.
The second section lay beyond a wall of reinforced glass.
Elighan sat in the center of the containment cell, her legs folded beneath her in an almost meditative pose.
The restraints were immediately visible; heavy metal bands encircling both wrists, connected by a short length of chain that allowed limited movement. A collar sat snug around her throat, its surface embedded with small blinking lights and what looked like injection ports. From the collar, a thick chain extended back to a mechanism built into the far wall.
Her skin caught the overhead lights with an unnatural sheen, grey and smooth in a way that didn't quite look right. Her black hair hung long and damp against her bare shoulders and back, clinging to her skin as though she'd just emerged from water.
She was completely nude.
For several long moments, she remained perfectly still, so motionless she might have been mistaken for a statue. Then, her head tilted slowly to one side, and her eyes opened.
Black sclera. Crimson irises with vertical slits for pupils. They fixed on Hour through the glass with an intensity that felt almost physical.
One of the guards stepped forward, his voice flat and professional.Subject EG-7... Contained forty-seven days ago after manifesting at the Dugway site. Classified as Extra-Normal Entity, threat level undetermined.He gestured toward the glass.She's been... cooperative. Mostly. Doesn't eat, doesn't sleep. Just sits there.
Another guard shifted uncomfortably, his grip tightening on his weapon.Command wants you to make initial contact. Assess cognitive function, communication capability. See if it-He paused, corrected himself.-if she can provide useful intelligence.