Savage Earth / Season 1, Episode 8
Beneath the Veil
Episode 8: Beneath the Veil Torren’s breath caught in his throat, the icy air of the control room biting at his lungs as he stared at the grainy feed on the console screen. The ocean outside churned, a endless expanse of black and gray, but it wasn’t empty. Shapes—huge, sinuous, and impossibly alive—glided through the murk, their movements too precise, too purposeful to be random. Each flicker of the distorted image sent a jolt through him, his fingers tightening on the edge of the console, the cold metal grounding him against the rising dread in his chest. “What… what are we looking at?” Mira’s voice was barely a whisper beside him, her eyes wide, reflecting the dim green glow of the screen. She leaned closer, her shoulder brushing his, and he could feel the tremor in her frame, the same fear clawing at him. “I don’t know,” he admitted, his jaw tight. “But they’re not just swimming. They’re watching.” He pointed at one of the shapes, its outline sharpening for a split second before dissolving back into static. It had turned, almost facing the camera, a suggestion of eyes—or something worse—lingering in the blur. “That’s not random. They know we’re here.” Mira swallowed hard, her hand drifting to the knife at her belt, though what good it would do against...