For a while, Shiva thought the hostage was faking it. The screams, playing dumb, everything. Being as close as she was, however, she noticed the sclera of his eyes begin to fog red. Looking closer, his capillaries were all bursting at an alarming rate. Before Shiva knew it, he was bleeding from all his facial orifices and became still. The silence that followed had Shiva check the human's neck for a pulse with her disproportionate fingers. Dead. Shiva put one hand to the top of the human's head for a moment and closed her eyes, channelling enough neutrium to try and take a quick glimpse of his physiology.

After a few seconds, Shiva opened her eyes and lowered her hand with a sigh. She was dumbstruck, "I don't get it, his blood pressure just...spiked beyond anything I could think to cause it. Not even inhaling some gas and taking a stimulant would cause this as far as I'm aware." Shiva stood up and let the human's body fall forward, retrieving her weapon and readying it. "'Not normal' is an understatement. We need someone to take a closer look at this body before we disembark."

For all Shiva's worries, it remained that they had a rough idea of where the data centre was. She turned to the others with pursed lips, ready to move out. "First, though, primary objective."