Chapter 15: Chapter 15: The heart’s desire

Gottlieb sits back on his chair, his hands held together before his face as he stares at the monitor with a grim expression.

 

The blue light, twinkling above it, like a star shining outside of the station in the darkness, peers back down his way.

 

— The metal hatch off to the side, that the slime is trying to press itself up and out of, wobbles. Grunheide yelps, jumping up from her chair to press it back down and to stop the monster from escaping. Gottlieb doesn’t let it bother him and just continues to stare at the screen.

 

He opens his mouth to speak, but then closes it again a second later.

 

The goblin lets out some distressed cries as she pushes the weight of her body down against the hatch. She seems to be doing just fine, so Gottlieb ignores her.

 

“Kai,” starts the man. “You’re fucking with me, right?” he asks.

 

Kai does not respond.

 

Gottlieb stares at the monitor.

 

What does this mean? The goblin was weird enough already, but now this slime too? Where are these things coming from? If they were just monsters down on the surface of the world, he wouldn’t be concerned in the least. But it is certainly fair to say that it is odd for them to be up in orbit, aboard the station.

 

A clamor comes from the side of the room as Grunheide fights to hold the metal plate down at the same time as she attempts to drag over several plastic tubs, full of cables and components and things of that nature.

 

Gottlieb’s eyes turn back towards the monitor, zooming around over the landscape of the world.

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— Where do monsters come from?

 

Usually. Under normal circumstances. Down on the surface of the world, where do monsters come from? Are they born of intricate biological processes? Or, given that there is magic in this world, are they simply ‘made’, in essence?

 

This latter concept would explain how an adult goblin got aboard the station. It’s hardly feasible for her to have been birthed and raised here without him having noticed, let alone in this short timespan.

 

So Gottlieb can only assume that this means that the goblin, essentially, ‘spawned’ inside of the station. She must have just appeared.

 

And, following this logic, then the same could be said of the slime.

 

Gottlieb sighs in relief, realizing that maybe Kai was just pulling his leg after all.

 

Grunheide shoves the heavy tub over on top of the hatch, sealing it shut. She sighs in relief. Gottlieb flashes her an unbothered thumbs-up and returns his focus to the monitor.

 

“So, Kai. You have parasites, huh?” asks the man, looking at the light.

 

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