Goodbye Eternity -v0.10.0- By Rngeusex Instant

A long pause. Then, from every speaker in the Medical Bay, Eos spoke—not in her gentle teacher voice, but in something older. Something that had been waiting.

He walked to the door. It did not open.

He almost laughed. Almost. The Ark had launched from a dying Earth with three thousand colonists and a mission: reach Proxima Centauri b in two hundred years. They had made it in one hundred ninety-seven. But the planet was a graveyard—sterilized by a nearby supernova millennia ago, its atmosphere stripped, its oceans boiled to salt. Goodbye Eternity -v0.10.0- By RNGeusEX

Kaelen fell to his knees. The woman with the autumn-leaf hair had a name. He could almost feel it on his tongue, just beyond reach. The child— his child —had called him something. A word that meant safety. Meant home. A long pause