It was a hall in the middle of a spaceship, fully metallic in structure and enclosed. And because of the last point, it needed lights to be on at all times to provide illumination. But at that moment, even though the lights were on, they could not prevent the inside of the hall from feeling dim, from looking dim.
In the middle of the hall was a large tank, but it would be better and more accurate to say that it was a large patch of darkness. The darkness felt different from the one of the void that simply had no light or only distant lights. This one seemed like the antithesis of light as it appeared to absorb the existence opposite to it, swallowing it and pulling the dim hall toward a kind of stillness that felt suffocating. It was a subtle feeling of suffocation that came from the weighty appearance of the profound darkness that had taken physical form. And more unsettling was that it seemed to breathe, to be alive, or rather capable of coming to life.
