The last item of evidence, ‘Grotto’, closed on a discarded blueprint caught underneath a brick.
It seems that the piece of paper was swept by the wind to its current position and that our discovery of the plan was not anticipated by the designer.
The coded references found on the image lead us to a series of points on a map that triangulated around a barren plain of land. Or so we thought.
What we discovered at the centre took our breath away and caused us to question quite what we had witnessed.
As you can see from our documentation, the diagram found in 'Grotto' has been made manifest.
In the centre of this landscape a middle-aged man is held aloft by a large robotic arm, seemingly cocooned in a microclimate of lush green meadow and reading a book. He is attached by tubes to a large chunk of meat and from what we can see, the flow of medium is both to and from the meat, suggesting he is simultaneously feeding and being fed by this organism.
It makes us consider whether this is some form of self-sustaining system, an unnerving new type of farming, or perhaps a legitimate expression of auto-cannibalism. If the meat is made up of his cellular material, then is it his? - Is it him? - Is it an extension of himself, or an entirely new lifeform?
Is this the only instance of this technology, or is this just the beginning?
