The captain stepped over to the rightside of the apparatus, and held the tape."Just here, Doctor?" he asked."That's good Captain." She examined the ta...e and entered furtherreadings."Now could you hold it actually in the centre of the hollow" she asked.The Captain stepped in front of the dished area and held the tape. "Thisok Doctor," asked the captain."Perfect Captain, Just perfect," said the Doctor, stepping over to theother side of the device. She pressed a button on the controls,. . . and right now, you don’t!”Joanne stared at me for the longest time, her little mind whirring with thoughts and schemes. I could hear the gears going around, and some of the teeth weren’t lining up quite correctly, I swear. She had something devious that she was plotting, that I knew by the expression on her face.“There’s one way to find out, Jim” she said softly. “You and I could have sex . . . couldn’t we?”“Jo! What the fuck are you talking about? I’m your brother! That’s wrong, and you. The ceiling emitted a soft white light, and there were several very small vents and nozzles protruding from it. I was laying nude on a metallic platform at the center of the room. The floor was a strange metal grill that appeared to basically act as a drain as much as a floor. The only other feature I could see from that position was some sort of protrusion from one wall that had some kind of empty sack or membrane attached to it."Welcome to your new home, slave," Steven's voice suddenly said. . blood?“Black Blood would devour me if they found me.” More blobs of black ooze splashed outward from its non-existent mouth, landing around its bobbing head, and disappearing into the black. “I ... I only here, to ... to sustain on the ... death, and blood, and black.”Black Blood. Eric clenched a fist, and forced in a breath. Yeah, this gurgling little spirit did look something like Black Blood. Course, his memories were a blurry mess, having nearly died from his wounds when the strange.