distance looks like a robe. Like a priest or something, and for a moment it looks as if he is about to say mass.
The behaviour was very strange, were the drones waking up from the infection? Maybe everyone woke up eventually and Steve just happened to snap out of it quicker than most. The other drones still looked demented though, still with the same look of rage and hunger in their eyes. The blank lifeless stare of killing machines. Unconcerned with life, yours or theirs.
Just the night before they had still acted like savage beasts as they woke up after all. So this was no awakening, this was an evolution, and this was the alpha he was looking for. The asshole who was disrupting his evenings of research. He needed to make sure this shot counted.