"Are you all right, Dr. Will?" Dr. Peters asked concernedly.
The physicist's sudden ravings had worried everyone. When he threw out that news about aliens, both Captain Miller and Dr. Peters had been startled. Like everyone else, the color drained by mild malnutrition rapidly surged back into the physicist's neck and cheeks. His trembling lips were covered in dead skin caused by the recent lack of water, and a foul smell radiated from his entire body. Unlike the excited flush of those who had heard good news, Dr. Will was extremely agitated, his eyes nearly crazed.
He had not told anyone else, especially Dr. Peters, that the nightmare which had jolted him awake from the gravity Cryo-pod still clung to him. Even now, he could remember his long-dead wife's empty, blood-soaked eye sockets, and the coldness and madness of the void described by the dead.
Captain Miller immediately realized that Dr. Will was not joking.
Project Pegasus was a mysterious joint operation organized by NASA and S.H.I.E.L.D. The hurried launch of the Event Horizon, equipped with a hyperspace engine, certainly had not been solely for exploring space beyond the Solar System—at least, not entirely. But now he shared Dr. Will's concerns. Though the possibility sounded absurd, he believed it. After all, everything they had encountered since awakening from hibernation had surpassed imagination. Combined with the Alien Invasion incidents in New York and London known across the world—Captain Miller had been in New York at the time and had personally witnessed the alien portal opening—it no longer seemed impossible to encounter aliens in outer space.
He looked toward the pilot, First Lieutenant Smith, waiting for an answer.
"It's a human language, and it's English." Hope still filled First Lieutenant Smith's face. "Should we contact that ship?"
"No!" Dr. Will shouted.
"Why?