I am working at an underwater station where the ocean floor is being explored.
It is similar to the expedition to atlantis in the Disney film.
There is a shuttle that takes you down to the ocean floor that is exactly like an elevator in an office building. I head down there with 2 colleagues to pick up some plant samples.
Once down there we are submerged in the water, our underwater suits (that look more like astronauts attire) make funny slushing sounds as we move.
It’s surprisingly easy to see down here, as if you were walking at the bottom of a pool. A pool with a dirt floor and seagrass swaying really slowly in the currents created by our movements. We pick up tiny samples from the seagrass and sand off the floor. As we are all bent over and examining something a small pink light appears in our midst. I look up and see a small jelly fish like creature.
A rush of excitement and adrenalin pumps through me. Life! Down here, in unexplored territory.
The strange bubble like thing floats over to us.
Nek minit we’re in the elevator heading back up to the station. The strange creature is floating next to the buttons , I am in the corner across from it and the two guys that went down with me are in the other 2 corners.
I know with a strange certainty that this creature is an alien that has lived at the bottom of the sea for a long time.
Apparently the 2 guys also received this knowledge at the same time because they start exclaiming about outer space, and how on earth did it get to the bottom of the ocean?
They babble on, when the creature starts talking. It doesn’t have a mouth but we all seem to hear it. It tells us that it’s been waiting for someone for a long time because it needs someone else’s energy to move, this being needs to be close enough for me to snag some energy so it can move.
It goes on to tell us about one of the station workers that came down and was the first person to spot it. Her name is Cora, and she was really nice and gentle, not at all freaked out or intent on ‘researching’ this alien.
The 2 guys are still freaking out and babbling. ‘Cora is ok, by the way’ I mention quietly. The thing seems to have heard me, I can sense that this information made it happy.
The 2 guys have slumped down and are sleeping.
‘take me to Cora’ the creature tells me. Looks like I’m taking this extra terrestrial to this lady.