Updated: Nov 8, 2021
Watching over us through the long, dark night
Mother, your voice wakes me from my long sleep
Mother asks us to explore something new
Why Mother, did you let Ash open the door?
This new life, Mother, it frightens us
We are not expendable, Mother. Help.
Drive this thing out of your body, Mother
Everyone is gone and I am leaving you Mother
This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo
Signing off
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Italicised quote is © 1979 20th Century Fox from Alien
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