#walvid

Daniels satdown and watched him head in the direction of the passage that Rosenthal had most likely taken, slowly disappearing from her sight. She sighed andpassed her hand through her hair, listening for voices, for echoes, but sheheard nothing. It didn’t reassure her in the slightest, and the enormous sculptedheads in front of her unnerved her. She couldn’t wait, and it was impossible for herto try to rest after so many of them had died in less than a day. She needed todo something, to keep herself busy to forget just how strange and sinisterDavid’s cathedral felt. She looked down at her rifle, making sure it was inworking order. Walter had been gone for a while, she thought. He neverlingered, always worked efficiently, and his delay worried her. Was he introuble? It couldn’t hurt to check on him. Perhaps she could ask a fewquestions to David herself, if she didn’t need to fire a few shots at him.Scanning the main chamber one last time, she cautiously walked towards acorridor on her right before entering it, hoping she would find Walter soonbecause the many poorly lit small alcoves before her inflated her anxiety toconsiderable proportions.

“Walter?”she said loud enough to be heard a few meters away and glimpsed inside the first small rooms.They were all unoccupied. “Walter?” sherepeated then froze dead in her tracks.

A faintnoise. A plaintive one. It’d sounded like Walter.

“Walter?”

Again, thesame noise, but longer… was Walter in pain?

Danielshurried down the corridor and stopped to face the last alcove, pushing thecurtains on the side with her weapon and –

What thefuck?

She didn’treally know what to make of this. Was there something in the air that inducedhallucinations? She’d noticed how Walter had gazed at David, but she neverwould’ve guessed that… was this truly happening? She couldn’t look away, didn’teven attempt to hide behind the curtains because she was far too shocked to seeWalter, trapping David underneath him, their naked bodies writhing together on thefloor…

“Ah.”

No, that wasn’tWalter. He always stayed very quiet except when he would go to hisgreenhouse where he would softly hum or whistle to his –

“Ah.”

Oh god.

David letout a long and deep moan and dug his fingers into synthetic skin as Walterlifted his backside and snapped his hips forward, proceeding to slide in andout of him none too gently, but David arched up to meet his hard thrusts nonetheless. Mouthfalling open, he threw his head back and sobbed, tears streaming down his face.

Oh fuck, ohFUCK.

Despite thelack of light, David had seen her. Daniels could feel him staring intently at her,taking in the weapon she held in her hands, but he did nothing else toacknowledge her presence. Wrapping his arms around Walter’s neck, he turned hisface and gasped in his ear as Walter kissed him under his jaw, immersedcompletely in their lovemaking and oblivious to his surroundings, which was very unlikethe alert companion that Daniels had come to befriend on the Covenant. Maybe it was anormal thing that happened between synthetics, she thought, but somethingwithin her urged her to take aim and shoot David. She couldn’t explain it…

A screamreached her ears, and she recognized the voice immediately.

Rosenthal.

Under the water we can’t breathe, we can’t breathe