Dod Kalm
Special Agent Dana Scully's notes:
It has been eighteen hours, forty-five minutes since the onset of symptoms. Rudimentary blood tests have revealed impossibly high concentrations of sodium chloride, salt.
Though the contaminated water itself is not saline, it appears to catalyze existing body fluids, causing massive and rapid cellular damage.
The untainted water has slowed the degenerative progression in Trondheim and me. But Mulder has fared less well, perhaps because of the dehydration he suffered on the way here.
Mulder's urinalysis continues to indicate his kidneys' failure to excrete the substance I am calling Heavy Salt.
Whether the untainted water is even helping him at all is unclear. What does remain clear to me is that I can't give up trying.
Second report:
Agent Fox Mulder lost consciousness at approximately four-thirty this morning, the twelfth of March.
There is nothing more I can do for him or for myself. Supplies are exhausted. No food or liquid consumed for over twenty-four hours. The outer hull most probably flooded, though for now the inner hull is supporting the ship's mass.
Among Halvorsen's belongings I found a children's book of Norse legends. From what I can tell the pictures show the end of the world, not in a sudden firestorm of damnation, as the Bible teaches, but in a slow, covering blanket of snow.
First the moon and the stars will be lost in a dense, white fog. Then the rivers and the lakes and the sea will freeze over. And finally, a wolf named Skoll will open his jaws and eat the sun, sending the world into an everlasting night.
I think I hear the wolf at the door.
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