He remembered the creaky stairs and decided against trying to escape. Instead, he slipped into a bedroom. He scanned the space quickly, seeing it was furnished with a twin bed, nightstand and a dresser. In the corner of the room, he saw a small closest: the perfect hiding place.

Without hesitation he crossed the room and slipped inside, shutting the bi-fold doors silently behind him. Setting his helmet and pack on the floor he turned to peek through the crack. The angle gave him the perfect view of a window covered by a thin white curtain.

Beyond the dirty glass he could see movement in the street below, and when his eyes finally adjusted to the darkness he saw them.

There were hundreds of the aliens. The entire ground looked alive with the teeming creatures. He watched in shock as a pack of Spiders feasted on the remains of the cul-de-sac’s residents. The monsters fought over the scraps, shrieking and clawing at each other. His eyes followed the trail of gore to a massive worm-like creature that lay curled up next to a car.

It wasn’t the first time he had seen one of them. And, if he survived, it would not be the last. He had come across a parking lot the day before filled with the floating blue orbs. He had watched a pair of the Worms slither across the blacktop, consuming the spheres and their human prisoners, sucking them almost dry of water before spitting out the remains for the Spiders to feed on.

Through the open window, something caught his eye. One of the Spiders was staring directly at him with large, glassy eyes.

Before Alex could slip into the shadows of the closet, the creature tilted its head like a curious dog. With bated breath he waited, his heart pumping rapidly inside his chest.

Had it seen him? Could it sense him?

Scratch, scrape, scratch, scrape.

Alex knew what that sound meant. He had heard it before, when the Organics had hunted his team in the Biosphere.

The Spider had seen him. He moved to the window and pulled back the drape. Outside, the creatures skittered around on the blacktop, their mandibles parting to unleash hellish shrieks. He watched in horror as hundreds of eyes stared back up at him, twitching, narrowing in on him. Never had he seen so many. . . .

He realized that their behavior wasn’t that different from his own. The Organics were hungry, and to them, Alex was nothing more than a meal on legs.

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The adventure continues in Orbs II: Stranded when one of Sophie's team is kidnapped and the others mutiny.

Orbs II: Stranded

The team makes some surprising discoveries about the Organics that may be the key to saving earth once and for all in Orbs III: Redemption.

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