Chapter 32

Aavani grimaced. “Sorry.”

“What haveyou learned about it?”

“Well, you know about as much as we do. It poses as a plant and attacks anything that comes near it. The acid secretes from pores throughout the body, and it also has a type of spore that emanates from under the leaf-like appendages. It doesn’t seem to sleep, though it may have been dormant before you encountered it.”

Interesting. He considered mentioning the hallucinations, but he couldn’t risk it. The information could easily reach Jack, and Cillian simply didn’t want his husband to know. He would be worried sick about it. And he might look at Cillian differently, which he feared. It was bad enough that he lost an eye. He didn’t need people thinking he had an alien sickness.

“Have you found any others?”

“Not yet. We’re obviously being very careful now. No one wants a repeat of what happened to you.”

“I can imagine.”

“Everyone who goes down to the surface gets a glass box. Just in case.”