:: PILOT ENTERING REM SLEEP ::
:: INITIATING ::
:: PILOT: SIAS, OAMOD | AGE: 31 | SEX: MALE | LOCATION: BEAGLE 2 LANDING / ASELLUS PRIMUS ::
:: CONDITION: PTSD ::
:: MONITORING REM ::
A woman stands on a hillock. The sun behind her, surrounding her head like a halo.
She turns to face me. Her long brown hair covers half her face. She's beautiful.
The wind lifts her pale-yellow dress. She's barefoot.
The grass, green and healthy, brushing against her ankles.
She laughs, she smiles. Her eyes green, and loving.
She holds out a hand to me.
I walk towards her. But I don't get any closer.
I try to run. Nothing happens.
She continues to smile at me, her hand out-stretched.
The wind blows stronger, brushing her hair from her face.
:: ELEVATED HEART RATE DETECTED ::
Her face is burnt. The skin, black and cracked.
Her eye is missing, a cold dark socket stares at me.
The blackness spreads across her body.
I smell burning, rotting, flesh.
Her dress falls from her body. Her hair burns.
She screams. But I don't hear anything.
She falls to her knees. She holds a burnt hand out to me.
She watches in horror as the wind tears it from her body.
Fear. Confusion. Terror.
With one last look at me. She collapses into a pile of ash.
:: ELEVATED FEAR AND STRESS LEVELS DETECTED, LEVEL 1 WARNING ::
The grass is dead. Blackened and scorched around me.
The sky dark, the sun gone. It's hard to breathe.
Now I can hear screaming. It's not the womans.
I can move. I move.
I run to the hillock, where the woman was.
Below me, a small town burns.
Dark shadows move through the streets, killing everyone.
Men, women, and ….
Confused and alone, a child is crying for her mother.
But her mother lies dead beside her, a bullet to her brain.
Bang.
A dark figure stands above and behind the child.
Oh gods...
:: WARNING ::
No. Stop. Please, God no. Not again. Stop! Please! STOP!
:: WARNING ::
The figure aims his weapon at the child…
:: WARNING ::
A sound. Briefly.
The figure turns to the hillock.
Nothing. The hillock is empty.
He turns back to the child...
:: WARNING ::
:: WARNING ::
:: WARNING ::
:: EXTREME NEUROLOGICAL ACTIVITY, LEVEL 3 WARNING ::
:: STARTING EMERGENCY PROCEDURES ::
...and I pull the trigger.
:: ADMINISTERING APPROVED SEDATIVE ::
:: PILOT SEDATED ::
:: NEUROLOGICAL ACTIVITY RETURNING TO NORMAL LEVELS ::
:: CONTINUING TO MONITOR... ::
:: INITIATING ::
:: PILOT: SIAS, OAMOD | AGE: 31 | SEX: MALE | LOCATION: BEAGLE 2 LANDING / ASELLUS PRIMUS ::
:: CONDITION: PTSD ::
:: MONITORING REM ::
A woman stands on a hillock. The sun behind her, surrounding her head like a halo.
She turns to face me. Her long brown hair covers half her face. She's beautiful.
The wind lifts her pale-yellow dress. She's barefoot.
The grass, green and healthy, brushing against her ankles.
She laughs, she smiles. Her eyes green, and loving.
She holds out a hand to me.
I walk towards her. But I don't get any closer.
I try to run. Nothing happens.
She continues to smile at me, her hand out-stretched.
The wind blows stronger, brushing her hair from her face.
:: ELEVATED HEART RATE DETECTED ::
Her face is burnt. The skin, black and cracked.
Her eye is missing, a cold dark socket stares at me.
The blackness spreads across her body.
I smell burning, rotting, flesh.
Her dress falls from her body. Her hair burns.
She screams. But I don't hear anything.
She falls to her knees. She holds a burnt hand out to me.
She watches in horror as the wind tears it from her body.
Fear. Confusion. Terror.
With one last look at me. She collapses into a pile of ash.
:: ELEVATED FEAR AND STRESS LEVELS DETECTED, LEVEL 1 WARNING ::
The grass is dead. Blackened and scorched around me.
The sky dark, the sun gone. It's hard to breathe.
Now I can hear screaming. It's not the womans.
I can move. I move.
I run to the hillock, where the woman was.
Below me, a small town burns.
Dark shadows move through the streets, killing everyone.
Men, women, and ….
Confused and alone, a child is crying for her mother.
But her mother lies dead beside her, a bullet to her brain.
Bang.
A dark figure stands above and behind the child.
Oh gods...
:: WARNING ::
No. Stop. Please, God no. Not again. Stop! Please! STOP!
:: WARNING ::
The figure aims his weapon at the child…
:: WARNING ::
A sound. Briefly.
The figure turns to the hillock.
Nothing. The hillock is empty.
He turns back to the child...
:: WARNING ::
:: WARNING ::
:: WARNING ::
:: EXTREME NEUROLOGICAL ACTIVITY, LEVEL 3 WARNING ::
:: STARTING EMERGENCY PROCEDURES ::
...and I pull the trigger.
:: ADMINISTERING APPROVED SEDATIVE ::
:: PILOT SEDATED ::
:: NEUROLOGICAL ACTIVITY RETURNING TO NORMAL LEVELS ::
:: CONTINUING TO MONITOR... ::