The smell was apparent when I stepped outside, it was like roasted garbage. Trezlan said he couldn't smell it since he can turn that off at will. Which told me he knew about the smell prior to stepping outside and didn't bother to tell me like a dick. I thought maybe at first it was roasting garbage, the colony was a very hot planet, and if everyone just disappeared no one would take out the trash and it would just sit and swelter, but I could not find any. I couldn't find any proof people had been there aside from the buildings themselves.
Just the damn smell, it was overwhelming and everywhere. It permeated everything that wasn't the space port. Which made me wonder how the space port managed to not smell (and also explained again why Trezlan said I should set up there). I was kind of at a loss as to what I was expected to do there. Like I'm not an investigator, I can't find people for shit and I don't know anything about biological agents.
"You'll be so surprised when you see." Trezlan was sipping tea, I don't know if he manifested or made it, but he was sipping it.
"This is like the worst birthday surprise ever."
"I never had traditional birthdays, so I guess in a way this is like your gift to me, I can't wait till they come."
"They?"
"Well I believe they refer to themselves collectively, its not He or she, its they."
"So cryptic." I admit I was more than a little terrified, and when "they" came, it was clear I should have been. Damnable gods giving vague hints.
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