Day 2,710

The seams on their faces split with a wet hiss, skin peeling back like flower petals greeting the morning sun only as they turned towards us we were greeted with gaping chasms filled with teeth. Their bodies gracefully flickered between dimensions, vanishing and reappearing vaguely beneath their flowerish heads as the pack began to stalk towards us.

I knew from experience that the safest thing we could do was to stay completely still and hope our scents were less enticing than the other exploratory teams a few hallways away. If the last team had managed to send their message in its entirety we'd have been more prepared but one of the pack managed knock the router over and crush it in pursuit.

It's hard to say who started the fight in the atrium but it drew the pack's attention away from us, allowing us to recover the previous team's samples without any further confrontations. We held a vote in the truck so see if we should go back to check for survivors in the other teams but the vote fell in favour of completing our mission.

We just didn't have the munitions, manpower or mapping to make it to check for survivors and complete our mission. There was no scenario where we could have faced that pack and made it back alive with even one of their team. They were as good as dead as soon as they started fighting amongst themselves and, god willing, their deaths were quicker than the last team's.