Childs decides to stay behind in the Electrical Room. He grabs his tool box, and then looks around for a Battery Packs. He does not see one.
Copper and Gary head all the way back up to the Medical Storage and Surgery Room. With the lights on, Copper can assess the situation.
He sees that Nauls has two bleeding puncture wounds in his left shoulder. Working quickly, he runs over to stop the bleeding. He then does a bunch of other medical things that I will not go into detail about. Soon enough, Nauls has two stitches where his wounds are, and a white bandage wrapped diagonally across his chest to cover the sutures.
Copper then works on Blair, prying the blood-stained shirt away from his neck. The bleeding has largely stopped, the cut was not deep. It simply bled because of the area. Copper sutured up the wound, and bandaged the neck.
Finished with his, he stands up. Nauls is still unconscious, and Blair is still mute, though his voice will likely return to him in time.
Just as you start to feel satisfied that your comrades were healed, your ears pick up a noise, coming from upstairs. You all pause, trying to hear what it is. You open the door so everyone can hear better.
Someone is playing the Saxophone.
The first note holds, then breaks down into a waterfall of music. It is slow, eerie. The music continues this pattern for two minutes, then slows down. It repeats it’s pattern once again, a slow pattern. Then, a new beat.
Dun Dun Dun Dun
Dun Dun Dun Dun
Dun Dun Dun Dun
Dun Dun Dun Dun
Dun Dun Dun Dun
Dun Dun Dun Dun
DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN
Da de dun dun dun de
DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN
The slow slips into crescendos of notes, controlled chaos, then slips back into its beat.
Dun Dun Dun Dun
Dun Dun Dun Dun
Dun Dun Dun Dun
Dun Dun Dun Dun
Dun Dun Dun Dun
Dun Dun Dun Dun
DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN
You are all perplexed. You simply stand, listening to the song. It is expertly played, and expertly composed. It is crisp, clean, not a recording.
But, the only person at the base who knew how the play the Saxophone was John Campbell*, the first victim of the Thing. And he is most definitely dead.
There is a crackle from your radio, the sound made when someone turns ones on.
The song continue to float around you
*Check the prologue