Day 175

There is nothing so worrying as the sight of a small child where no humans
should be able to survive.
And yet here she was.
Somehow she was alive and laughing.
At the bottom of the Mariana Trench...

We saw her clear as day on the drone-sub's camera feed.
We even followed her around as she played chase with some kind of deep sea
jellyfish (our original point of observation.

Checking our camera feed we found nothing wrong but we were seeing more
children joining the girl.

They all had the same symbol carved into their backs.

As they circled the sub we received strange static interference.
I swear it sounded like... like my mother.

We had no way to talk to the children, we could only watch and record them
for when we got back to the surface, if we couldn't bring them up with us.

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So we got in touch with our base, turns out these kids have been appearing
everywhere they can't possibly be.
They've been in lakes, tree bark, outside the windows of the international space
station!

No-one knows what they are, they aren't human.

They can't be.