They were cocoons, that much was certain. Last night they were perfectly normal human infants delivered by perfectly normal human mothers and now they were hacking up great globules of a glue-like substance that hardened within minutes to form the wispy shells they were now writhing within.
A few were cut open in our attempts to free the babies but all we found was a meaty sludge that bore no resemblance to anything remotely human. Whatever they were, they were quickly becoming something else and they were vulnerable in our midst.
We were able to remove them from the incubators without harming them, originally to transport them to somewhere better equipped to see what the hell was going on inside the cocoons but their mothers had other ideas and demanded we hand them over.
Legally we could have said no, morally we should have said yes. We met in the middle and moved the families we could to a more remote facility with everything a growing family could possibly need and enough security to protect us against whatever would eventually emerge.
Our scans showed nothing but gently moving meat slurry right until the hour before they hatched when everything suddenly snapped into shape and they emerged as toddlers. They were only about four months old but they looked maybe two or three years old.
We're watching them from their own homes now, getting samples and running diagnostics on a weekly basis to try and determine what they actually are. They look and act like children but their biology, their blood is unlike anything we've ever seen before and for all we know they may yet change again.
A few were cut open in our attempts to free the babies but all we found was a meaty sludge that bore no resemblance to anything remotely human. Whatever they were, they were quickly becoming something else and they were vulnerable in our midst.
We were able to remove them from the incubators without harming them, originally to transport them to somewhere better equipped to see what the hell was going on inside the cocoons but their mothers had other ideas and demanded we hand them over.
Legally we could have said no, morally we should have said yes. We met in the middle and moved the families we could to a more remote facility with everything a growing family could possibly need and enough security to protect us against whatever would eventually emerge.
Our scans showed nothing but gently moving meat slurry right until the hour before they hatched when everything suddenly snapped into shape and they emerged as toddlers. They were only about four months old but they looked maybe two or three years old.
We're watching them from their own homes now, getting samples and running diagnostics on a weekly basis to try and determine what they actually are. They look and act like children but their biology, their blood is unlike anything we've ever seen before and for all we know they may yet change again.
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