Joan Alonso’s Reviews > Annihilation > Status Update

College assignment, Rock bay. Tidal pools, mussels, snails, gartner. Research for two years. To live in its reality.
"Ghost bird", a way of teasing by her husband.

The lighthouse, appearance of a fortress, a wall seaward. A battle happen there.
The biologist entered into the lighthouse, started to climb the stairs, blood in dribbles or spray.
A photograph of the lighthouse keeper.
The trapdoor found and the space where the psychologist left her stuff, all the journals found more than 12 expeditions…

03 Immolation

What role the Crawler serve?
The Event, Area X, in the news as an enviromental catasthrope.
Fringes.
The village, the moss and lichen that resembled people. The dolphin with human eye

He was gregarious and she preferred solitude, and took pride in the idea made them strong.

The lighthouse or the tower, for the surveyor the mission is over. The biologist tried to hypnotize her and didn’t work.

The biologist left and go to the lighthouse

The psychologist wasn’t in the surface nor at base camp.
The surveyor doesn’t trust the biologist.
The biologist wants to return to the tower, the surveyor wants to the border and await extraction
Cryptic samples, brain tissue, human. Photograhps were useless

Suspicions grew, the map a form to hide things and remark others.
The purpose was other

Red flecks living organisms.
A body slumped down on the wall, a person, the anthropologist.
Odd burn marks, broken jaw, a green ash, her hands burned and her legs melted.
She interrupted the creator of the script, the psychologist put her under hipnosis, the suicidal anthropologist to take a sample

The biologist husband, part of the 11th expedition as a medic.
Strife, difficult marriage.
He returned, so calm, amnesia.
Systematic cancer, he died six months later, like the others, he never came back

Continue to descend, the walls of the tower, breathing.
The latticework, a linguist was needed for the task.
The more they descend the words were fresher.
The slime and the cilia alike marks, the other set of boot prints.

2 Integration

The anthropologist has disappeared. The psychologist is the main suspect. They return to the tower, the biologist can see it’s a living organism, it breathes.