The distant ring of the phone could be heard echoing in the background. The moonlight sent slivers of silvery light through the blinds of the National Automatic Space Library branch.There was a distinct sound of a huge air lock being activated.
Decompression in 5, 4, 3..... The voice simulator began to softly count down. All functions are now deactivated. The switch board at the front of the command station dimmed and then went completely dark.
Nothing but the soft whirr of the hydrolic waste disposale system remained.
Cancrii silently began to count to himself backward. Since using a new form of fatburning pills his digestive system seemed to be stop and go. Well, more stop than go lately.
Lost deep in thought Cancrii began to recant all of the child hood verses that he had learned on earth, back to himself.
He wondered what time it was.
Mean while in the front of the National Automatic Space Library things began to shut down as the staff began to leave for their annual month off. It was customary due to the rigours of maintaining a filing system to take off for as long as thirty days. These days were customarily taken during the Festival of the flatbreads.
"The National Automatic Space Library is now closed please step away from your air locks, check your gravity belts, and turn in all of your battery packs."
Cancrii remembered counting sheep when he was younger. It always helped him pass the time.
The automatic front doors locked with a soft exhale of air.
The red blinking light on the side of the wall turned on and began to flash silently then complete darkness.
Cancrii pushed the flush button.
Finally, he thought to himself, not bothering to turn around and look he moved over to the sink and began to stare vacantly at the image that stared back at him.
Haggared, bleary eye'd and unshaven Cancrii stared at himself as if he waiting for his reflection to answer back.
Halitosis 99 began to do his closing rituals.
Silently checking each command post each phone line each computer link up.
Nothing, thought Halitosis 99 will be better than to get this check list over with and begin to work on my computer music. Halitosis thought about checking with the other computer companies for a software price that would be competive. Better not thought Halitosis 99.
Suddenly, Halitosis noticed a life form in the waste disposal unit. Halitosis switched all power off and began to autodail Attention Citizen one of the newer features that Halitosis had installed since utilizing it's no brainer hardware unit.
Cancrii dried his hands off and began to push against the airlock door. Funny he thought to himself I don't remeber it being this dark or this quite.
Halitosis 99 softly activated the NoBrainer Citizen Alert units,Each unit armed with percussive toss, electromagnetic search and seizure, as well veri-sign.
Outside the newsreporters vehicles began to crowd around the building