By the time the group has moved to<strong>MedBay</strong>, the elevator has descended to E-Deck once again.  The emergency shaft is buried in an eerie darkness.  And the two missing men sent up in the elevator still are out of contact.<br/><br/>As though the Daedelus' crew needed another reminder, there is the sight of thick things moving in Kat's tummy.  Its slenderness suffers shallow waves of some broad shape sliding around under it, making the flesh bulge up tenderly.  Above, her breasts are definitely getting larger, taking on the crimson bloat of fruit in the final phases of ripeness, about to burst.<br/><br/>They feel it.  There is most definitely something inside them.  Something so heavy, it does not seem liquid, but so saturating, it would have to be.  Something that discolors her orbs and makes them glossy and aching. Something eager to exit.<br/><br/>The mystery of the worm within her continues to squirm in Kat's belly and bottom.<br/><br/>And the mystery of Alex's question hovers in the misty light of the MedBay:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=25953.msg1690051#msg1690051">Quote from: Silvester on 03-03-2009, 07:28:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Wait... "Where the hell did that thing come from, anyway? What happened here before I awoke?"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Scanners wait in the white antiseptic walls, ready to try and find that answer.<br/><br/>But the question of what happened to the two men - what might happen to the hibernation chamber left unattended - looms as well.