15-minute ficlet: Moving In

[aldersprig]

Originally posted here in response to this image promptThe planet had been, to all of their sensors, bare of tool-using life. There was nothing there that showed up using anything more complex than a stone axe. No smelting. No radio waves. No large gatherings of populations

Comments

[fayanora]

That would indeed be creepy.

[aldersprig]

:-) yes.

[eseme]

Eeeek, horror.

<-- Is not good with horror.

[aldersprig]

O_O horror?

[eseme]

The being trapped alone on a planet that eats people seems rather horrific...

It's one of those "no way to leave, the party is killed off one by one" beginnings.

[aldersprig]

Hunh, rather a different read than I intended.