Salvage Duty
It’s been five hours since I saw daylight. To be honest, the darkness is starting to get to me—I’m seeing things circling me, even though my scanner’s trying to tell me I’m alone. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from all the time I’ve spent down here, it’s that you’re never really alone. There are plenty of godforsaken lifeforms out there that even the most high-tech scanner wouldn’t recognize, and we don’t get the most high-tech scanners. So I just have to keep walking, waiting for the creatures to make the first move, if they do. Sometimes, they just wait. Let our own minds do us in. I’ve heard stories of men that go down perfectly sane, and if they come back up, they go straight to the asylum. I’m afraid I’m not too far from a straightjacket myself. If I’dve known it would be like this, I never would’ve agreed.