Then there were more. Just a few. I mean, like three or four. Even then, it wasn’t more than a curiosity, Jim said. What was left in the system? Were there bodies? Did the aliens just disappear? the interrogator asked. It wasn’t like that, Jim said. The systems just went dark. Like losing a comm channel. Then how were they certain the systems were dead? They were all connected. If someone cuts off your hand, is it dead? So yeah, the systems were dead.
