Elias looked back at the crate. The hum was getting louder, shifting from a dull thrum to a rhythmic pulse. "What’s inside?"
Elias jumped, nearly dropping his tablet. Commander Vane stood in the shadows of the bulkhead, her face obscured by the flickering emergency lights. She wasn't wearing her usual bridge uniform; she was in a tactical vest, a sidearm holstered at her hip. Silent.Cargo.S01E04.PL.720p.AMZN.WEB-DL.H264.DD...
Vane didn't answer. Instead, she tapped a command into the crate's keypad. The seals hissed, venting a cloud of frigid, white vapor. As the lid slid back, a soft, bioluminescent blue light spilled out, illuminating the narrow room. Elias looked back at the crate
Elias, a junior engineer with a habit of wandering when he couldn't sleep, wiped grease from his forehead and stared at the digital manifest on his tablet. According to the log— Silent.Cargo.S01E04 —the crate contained "Agricultural Samples." But agricultural samples didn't hum at a frequency that made your teeth ache. "You're not supposed to be down here," a voice rasped. Commander Vane stood in the shadows of the
Suddenly, the ship's alarms blared—a hull breach in the docking bay. But as Elias turned to run, he realized the sound wasn't coming from the speakers. It was coming from inside the crate. The "silent" cargo was no longer silent; it was screaming in a thousand different voices, all of them his own.