Bug-horses also filled this cavern, although there wasn’t nearly as much as the horde that dominated the central pillar room. Individuals and groups rested by the side of the dug-out pools chatting to each other in their alien tongue, while others bathed and swam in the warm waters. A few were even clustered around the sides of the massive rectangular cave, drinking from water troughs apparently made from the strange hard black material. Daniel followed the makeshift piping of the drinking troughs, the waterworks running up the walls to a single pulsating green pod located high up on the side of the cave. 