When the anomaly first appeared, the governments of the world quickly assembled a team of experts from every field in science to figure out just what it was and why it was here. The thing is, it became apparent that my field, geology, had no relevance to our understanding of the anomaly whatsoever.
But I was curious, we all were, and the money was good. So I may have stated that there were unusual interactions going on between the anomaly and the silicates in the ground where it rested, which might have been a touch of wishful thinking, to keep me on board.
That's when the unusual interactions between the anomaly and the silicate layers started happening. In fact, the anomaly’s behaviour changed drastically after our preliminary observation reports. As bizarre as it sounds, it began to match whatever we said about it.
Which was disconcerting, because the virologist was claiming it was here to unleash a biological weapon that would scour all life from the planet.
Paddy Dobson
12th January 2023