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That’s the question! Why does it want to meet
us here? It could easily have kept itself hidden! ”
    Weaver had a
shudder rush up his spine!
    “ What actually are we talking
about? ” one
of the silent soldiers asked, who had sat out of the way, and he
moved over to it, getting ready to do something, and was
immediately stopped by Commander Craven.
    Weaver studied the figure and realized that
it had not moved or done anything since it had sat down.
    “ What do you want? ” the soldier asked it,
confused.
    Weaver knew there would be no reply and that
someone might do something, and might do something stupid and fire
their gun there, and he rushed over before anyone could and slowly
lifted the faceplate of the spacesuit, and stood back shocked!
    It was the soldier that had been killed when
the gunmen had attacked them, and they stood staggered, and the
others that could not see its face rushed over see there.
    The dead soldier was lifelessly dead and sat
without moving in its seat, and they examined him in every detail
and saw that his clothes were identical, and they wondered how it
had moved!
    “ We cannot leave
this! ” Commander Craven
finally moaned out loudly, showing his annoyance. “Great! How am I
going to explain this in my report?”
    While most of them sat down confused, trying
to explain how the body had moved there, they watched it fade away
and vanish!
     

Chapter 6
     
    The Hauntings
     
    The events were staggering afterwards! Some
of the soldiers seemed to get crazy thoughts about what occurred
and they gave accounts of there being something supernatural!
    Weaver thought it was something to do with
the scientists!
    Scientists
openly talked about their work researching it at the dinner table,
and about mysterious occurrences in the corridors at night. They
actually warned them about them, claiming that they regularly
occurred in my regions of the ice station.
    The way some of
the soldiers there talked about it and warned them left them as
unexplained deadly occurrences.
    Yet the deaths
there were worse and major scientists, as well as solders, had been
found dead all over the ice station, but the vast majority were
outside.
    They gave
detailed accounts of a group of scientists whose bodies were found
scattered throughout a lower corridor, where nobody usually went,
and now avoided after the incident.
    Weaver was
confused more than ever! Would the professional gunmen that
attacked them carry out such an attack? Yet he had not heard
anything like it! He was not sure if he believed that they had even
entered the ice station! He and the others seemed to be protected
from them there! Though there was a chance that they could enter by
a hidden entrance! Yet they had not seen them or had one clue as to
what they were like! Any manic could be given a gun and carry out
what they did!
    They could be
trying to cover their identity, which they had done and he had
proven it, and they could have panicked when they had seen their
team of highly advanced soldiers coming down from the plane, and
had attempted to annihilate the threat against them. But just what
the hell was their motive? Maniacs never attacked military ice
stations out in places like the Antarctic!
    It also
surprised him to hear that many of the scientists had been chased
by swift-moving lights that had been seen shifting through metal
walls, which they never had any knowledge of being possible.
    Eventually Commander Craven took the soldiers
out to get the dead soldier’s body and to check it, and prove it
had not risen from death or whatever they had claimed.
    It was far easier in sunlight and out of the
blizzard, and they had men surround the area with guns and
communicators ready to inform them of any attack, and Weaver
wondered why they were not contacting the outside world of the
occurrences as they had a form of communications to a satellite at
least! Then he discovered that they had to put up a large antenna
over the top of the ice station,