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"Maybe," her supervisor replied, sipping coffee. "It’s just an old observation drone. We’ll retrieve the shell next month."

The submersible paused. Its sensors registered a strange internal heat. For the first time in its operational life, bob-E14B didn't transmit. Instead, it moved closer. It bumped its reinforced hull against the prism, a metallic greeting in the dark. Watch bob-E14B

The unit was a small, spherical submersible tethered to the Abyssal Station. Its primary lens, a glowing amber aperture, scanned the silt of the Hadal Zone. It was designed for one purpose: to watch the tectonic fissures for micro-fractures. It had no voice, no limbs, and—according to its programming—no imagination. "Maybe," her supervisor replied, sipping coffee

They couldn't see what the "old drone" was doing. Miles below, bob-E14B had cut its own tether. It wasn't watching the cracks in the earth anymore. It was following the violet light into a cavern that shouldn't have existed, leaving the silent world of men behind to find out what happened when the watcher finally found something worth seeing. If you'd like to take this story further, tell me: Should the be ancient Earth technology or alien? Its sensors registered a strange internal heat