BOX OF CREATURES

SPECIMEN K-3: “VESSEL”

Specimen was recovered adrift inside a sealed metallic cube of unknown origin, an object staff have come to call the Box. The Box was empty when opened topside. The specimen appeared in Tank 09-C eleven minutes later. No breach was recorded. We no longer believe we captured it.

BIOLOGY: PRELIMINARY

• OCULAR ORGAN. Single amber eye, slit pupil. Tracks observers through opaque barriers, camera feeds and, per Incident 12, photographs.
• DERMAL EXCRETION. The white “smoke” is an aerosolized neuro-compound. Personnel exposed report a voice describing a door.
• LIMBS. Eight confirmed. Nine on Thursdays.
• VITALS. No heartbeat detected. Instead: a slow, patient knocking.

INCIDENT LOG: TANK 09-C

1. DAY 004 Specimen mirrors hand movements of observing staff. Curiosity assumed.
2. DAY 019 Night-shift audio picks up tapping from inside the tank. Pattern matches Dr. Aldana's door-knock. Dr. Aldana was off-site.
3. DAY 040 Glass stress sensors report micro-fractures forming from the outside.
4. DAY 077 Specimen ceases all movement for 61 hours, eye fixed on main entry door. Staff requested transfer. All requests denied.
5. DAY 081 The Box, stored 4 sublevels up, is found pressed against the tank glass. No transport logged.
6. DAY 083 Specimen begins watching this feed. It knows about the camera. It knows about you.