The enemy within

[Kiith]

It took some time until the console showed with a 'beep, that the scan was finished. Finall, after about half an hour of reading through other projects documents Bennet stood up and looked at the console's screen. It took again some time to get an overview about the data collected by the scanner, but what Marco saw did not really surprise him. The nomad parasite was easily to recognize within the body of Henrik Drum. But the nomad seemed to be everywhere. "Hmm, looks like Smith spun fine strings to every important part of the body...the spine, the brain...but he sits definetely here, in the middle of th spine, behind heart and lungs". Smith, that is how Bennet called the nomad, make make it less dangerous. Even if it looked like Marco talked to himself, there was a sence behind it. Everything what was happening in the lab was recorded. "What if we try to extract that thing..?" Bennet asked and started a simulation on a screen.

It showed that the host would die shortly after extraction. "Hmm, it seems there is a bloody neurotoxin within Smith's tentacles, and when we cut him out, they bring it into the boody. But it's almost impossible to bring the whole thing out.." While Marco was brainstorming with himself there was a new 'beep'. Not from the console but from Marco's PDA. He received a message, additionally a well encrypted. Again it was no surprise who contacted the scientist. Felicia Drum herself. He sighed. Of course she wants to know how it is going on. It will be the best to send the video log to her. At least she tried to find a way to cure him. Bennet opened the file she sent. There was nothing new at all...but..."It's no neurotoxin! It's a bloody overdose of cardamine...why di I oversee this?...Smith is full of cardamine...either Drum was addicted before he came and just stored the cardamine within his boody or he needs it to live, so he just became addicted..and when we fully unfreeze him he will not survive, because withdrawal symptoms additional to the problem with his organs...that will kill him..." Marco walked up and down the room, thinking about what to do...finally he came to the conclusion that he cant solve the problem alone...

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