Chapter 2 · free to read
The Meridian would not launch for forty years. But it had already condemned everyone aboard Kestrel-9.
The cabin was cold in a way the rest of the station was not. Cold like something had opened it to the black and closed it again.
Nine years. The silence Kestrel-9 listened to had never been silence. It had been waiting.
Forty years away, the Meridian had not been asking for rescue. It had been asking to be let in. And Kestrel-9 had just opened the door.
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