Alien- Xeno Senses

  “Topography maps show you height and dimension as a series of concentric lines. So if you’re looking at a mountain, as an example, you get these circles that show you the shape of the thing from the base all the way to the top. The tighter together the circles are the smaller the object is and the closer it is. Well, when you do that with the stars it’s the same sort of thing. You see the stars, okay? But what you’re really seeing are lines that draw closer together when they converge on a star and spread farther apart when there’s nothing to see.”

  “I think I get you.” The doctor was trying at least.

  “Okay, so let’s say you see that way, and then that you smell sounds. I know that doesn’t make sense. That’s the point here. I was seeing people in ways that didn’t make sense. They looked completely wrong, completely and utterly… alien.”

  Jacoby nodded.

  “It’s like you were seeing beyond the spectrum you’re used to.”

  “Exactly! I saw colors that I can’t describe, heard things that I shouldn’t have been able to hear, and could smell all sorts of things. Hell, everything I smelled had texture.”

  “So how do you know they were humans?”

  “In the dreams I didn’t,” Decker replied. “I understood it when I woke up, but when I was dreaming, they were just the things I needed to hunt.” He hoped that didn’t sound as bad to the doctor as it did to him.

Sea of Sorrows, Chapter 6