Ghost travelled deeper and deeper into the caves, following the noise. He had been drafting a map together as he went, so that he could leave easily. He really didn't want to send another orb out here...
The heat source was much closer now. Resonance scans detected a cavern around the next corner... there was a light source to. Perhaps that was also the origin of the heat? He deactivated his infra red eye and turned on image enhancing, to make better use of the dim lighting.
The cavern concealed a surprise. A horde of fleeches were shreiking to one-another, whipping out their tongues, generally being fleechy. But at the same time, behaving very un-fleech-like. and a creature he had never seen before, save rock art drawings.
They all suddenly fell silent and stared at him. Both heads on each fleech focused on the orb, and even through miles of data transmissions, the stared out of Ghost's screen and into his soul. Still, he had more eyes than the rest of them put together.
The orb shuddered a moment, and extended various devices. A small claw waved meepishly. Ghost spoke through the orb's speakers. What else was there to do?
"Um... Hi."
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