A Refreshing Taste

Posted on Fri Oct 25th, 2019 @ 1:58am by Lieutenant Alexis Aenera

Mission: Sounds of Silence
Location: Science Lab 3

It retreated from the muted scream of the subject, removing the needle with the ever so precious contents as the annoying semi-sound faded away and the humanoid in front of him relaxed and her head came to rest on the console in front of him. He checked the readout on his wrist, confirming that he was still concealed, then stepped back into the corner where he could still monitor this one.

The scent of her was delicious in its own right, though it had reduced and somewhat soured in the last few seconds as the cortisol levels in her blood lessened, not quite ripe enough anymore. He didn't notice the liquid leaking out of his subject's eyes and onto the console as he looked at the extraction instrument. This had been a prodigious one, fully sixty percent more than he'd anticipated! Enough that... Yes, he could indulge.

He backed up until his back was braced against the wall and he carefully, very carefully, set the device to release a pair of drops of the serum held within. his split tongue quivering in anticipation and then flicking out to consume the liquid. His downward-turned, pointed ears shook in delight and sheer euphoria while his muscles relaxed and he sagged back against the wall, a sigh escaping his mouth while his head went light and he felt strangely rejuvenated.

His eyes were closed for several seconds as he let himself be taken over by the feelings and he lost track of what was going on around him. When he opened them again, he was almost staring into another pair of eyes and had to restrain the instinctive hiss his species made as a response to a threat. Her eyes flicked around where he was, as if searching for something and he realized that she didn't actually see him. Something leaked from them, the scientist in him wondered what it was, if it could be unique to her species or some sort of response to the harvesting process in general, but that was something for later.

Slowly, very slowly, he began to move out of the corner, trusting his stealth device to cover the motion, but also knowing that moving too quickly could show something to the subject. Her eyes flicked in his new direction, then back towards the corner as if something had flickered in the corner of her eye and he escaped to the other wall in time to see her reach out into the corner and touch it, something coming across her face at the same time that he couldn't decipher.

Her reaching hand clenched into a fist, then the fingers extended again and touched the wall, as if savoring something. Interesting. He wanted another taste, NEEDED another taste of the serum to counter the near-discovery, but he couldn't risk it right now, not yet, not until he was alone again.

It was only a few more second before she stood again and walked back over to where she had been before, her scent again changing and his ears quivered again with the familiar scent of cortisol. She plunked herself down again and placed her head in her hands, massaging it as he moved forward again, slowly, carefully. A low moan came from her throat as she seemingly was reluctant to stop and punch a few buttons on the screen in front of her and them, yes...

He was quick to react, it was time again. He readied his extraction advice again and waited for the right moment, then stabbed again quickly. Her head went down into her hands again and that silent scream and he stepped back again, the procedure once again finished. So soon after an extraction, of course it wouldn't be as much. Her scent changed again, souring once more.

This time, he watched her head touch the console and the water leaking from her eyes, clearly a reaction to the extraction. How interesting...

OFF:

Lieutenant Alexis Aenera
Chief Science Officer
USS Astraea

Unknown Alien Scientist