266 Processor in the making

As the elder dissolved into a mass of hot goo, Lux fell to her knees while her entire body screamed out in pain. Taking short and shallow breaths Lux's vision darkened from a lack of oxygen reaching her brain, but when the cybernetic implants finally activated her body finally started to recover.

"... What the hell was up with that elder anyway?"

Having recovered enough from the aftereffects of pushing her body way too hard, Lux asked the question that had been on her mind all along. Looking to Dax when she didn't get a response, Lux saw him digging around the elder's remains, fishing out the elder's core which he immediately pried open as his face turned grim.

"What?"

"You don't want to know, trust me."

"Just fucking tell me."