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A companion piece to The Secret Eaters.

Poem[]

Out from beyond the reaches of our kind

Hidden signals and mechanical eyes

Machines unknown planning demise


Transmission alert on the bridge

A foreign message incoming

Then the chorus begins to sing


Screaming and howling

Ending in a burst of binary

Heading towards the world library


Then another message

"We are the Cryptovore"

Will this spell peace or war?


Ship goes to defensive mode

To protect its computer cargo

Trailed by a harsh orange glow


Then it board the ship

A sentient machine

Shining with a cobalt sheen


Information drained from the mind

The bodies left dead and cold

Like a vampire tale of old


One by one the crew and guards fall

Leaving a handful to try to stay alive

Led by a sergeant to survive


The sergeant proposes a plan

Sonic weapons will not damage

But a reactor core should manage


She sends the rest to the escape pods

This fight alone she shall win

Or die through the machinery’s din


To the bowels of the ship she goes

Luring the machine with the databank

Under a coolant storage tank


She cuts open the metal container

Freezing the machine in its tracks

As the pods launch the ice cracks


Hurriedly the sergeant disables the core

Meltdown initiated, five minutes counting

Now to escape, a task quite daunting


She makes it as the ice finally breaks

Launching, three, two, one, go

As the transport explodes into crimson snow


Safe, the sergeant thinks

But she didn’t pick up one message

A call for help beamed from the wreckage                        

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