“You hired us to find your missing people. And we did. This problem is bigger. They weren’t lost to an accident. There’s something down here killing them.”
“Then settle it, hunter,” the man replied.
“You don’t understand,” Hunter growled. “I’m talking about a Gate Age weapon. These things have been converting anyone they attack into more of them. You need to send in troops.”
The man on the other end looked skeptical, so Hunter nodded to me and I uploaded the details we’d gathered.
“We have more scans if you need them,” Hunter added with unconcealed venom in his voice. “But even you should be able to see how deadly these things are. And we have another miner that’s been attacked and needs a medical evac.”
The man glanced offscreen, presumably reading the report. As he did so, his eyes
