Chapter 6 - The Sacred Chamber
CHAPTER SIX The Sacred Chamber “Do you have the carbon reader?” Dr. Shaw had not taken her eyes from the dead giant as she made her request. Seconds later, she was blindly accepting the device with her right hand as she knelt. “Thanks,” she said, not knowing who had handed it to her. “How long has it been dead?” Dr. Holloway asked as if his girlfriend didn’t know what purpose she had kneeling next to a long-dead corpse with a carbon reader ready in hand. “Two thousand years… give or take,” Shaw announced after taking her reading. “Jesus…” “I wonder… what it was they were running from,” Ford supposed with a hint of apprehension. Holloway exhaled laughter from his nostrils. “Well, if it’s been two-thousand years, whatever it was ain’t here now,” he assured Dr. Ford. A series of mechanical clicks accompanied by unfamiliar, computerized tones drew the attention of the members of the team fawning over the decapitated Engineer. David was punching the ancient keypad… and n