"[color=977D9E]Kaplan,[/color]" Yingxue bit out as Holiday took down her dictation to send, "[color=977D9E]there's something seriously wrong with whatever this thing is.[/color]"

She peered down into the microscope again for the umpteenth time, still someone hoping that she was wrong about this and...whatever the hell it meant.

"[color=977D9E]Its genetiic code has been tampered with and spliced to hell and back so many times I can't even identify provenances. It would be easier to think of it as a man-made organism entirely than a modified animal. So...[/color]" she paused, rubbing her eyes as she tried to string her tired thoughts and words together, "[color=977D9E]if it's so incredibly modified, then [i]why?[/i] Why would LD9 make something that can sicken animals it bites, chew through concrete and metal...[/color]"

She sucked in a long breath through a tight cage of teeth, tilting back on her chair as she let her arm fall over her eyes. 

"[color=977D9E]And how did it end up here, anyway? It'd need to travel across the lunar surface, and if something can survive in that level of hypoxic environment, as soon as it was reintroduced to more oxygen density it'd die.[/color]"

A long, long sigh as she finally said what was bubbling in the back of her mind, letting her chair legs fall to the floor again as she started at the electron microscope in an oddly detached way. "[color=977D9E]I hope this is just me being paranoid, and it's not relaly my place to say anyway. But I'm starting to worry that this...[/color]" she hesitated a moment more, "[color=977D9E]...is some kind of sabotage. Let me know if you have any other tasks for me. Xi Yingxue.[/color]"

With a quick nod at nothing in particular to prompt Holiday to send it, she slumped out of chair, eventually laying flat against the ground as she stared up at the sterile ceiling.

"[color=977D9E]...I don't like this.[/color]"