Chapter 36MAR-A left the transit module first, still carrying the secured case holding the cross creature in the sample jar. Jules followed it out into the command pod.
The light panels were on. The temperature wasn’t warm–his breath fogged the air–but it was tolerable. It smelled of metal and old filters. Starting the systems must have blown out the cobwebs, so to speak.
It didn’t look like the habitation pods, or the medical pod. The layout was different, the airlock opened into another chamber, round, with a high ceiling and four curved benches. All of it done with soft bluish carbon panels. The light panels were white, a large circle in the ceiling and two bands circling the walls above. Gaps between the benches gave access to the hatches leading out of the room, including the one th
