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Before Rina could ask what that meant, the singularity pulsed.

Kaelen’s fingers flew across the nav computer. “Course plotted. But Captain… the gravity curve isn’t stable. It’s… breathing .” ums512 1h10 natv

For the first time in years, he smiled. “With pleasure, Captain.” Before Rina could ask what that meant, the

Captain Rina Voss, a woman with a scar that pulled her left eye into a permanent squint, didn’t look up from the fusion torch’s pressure gauge. “Details, Kael. Not poetry.” he smiled. “With pleasure

The time dilation stopped.

“Zero relative gravity. We’re just… debris.”

They were paid in one thing only: a new course, burned into the nav computer by the station’s dying AI.