Nothing compares to the chill of sudden silence. Everything shakes. A bright light fills the surrounding void, fading into unfamiliar stars. Screaming, fire, tearing metal, blaring alarms, gunshots...then nothing. Fifty-three pairs of footsteps become only one.
Charlotte Grace spends every waking moment rushing about the station trying desperately to fight off the slow-consuming emptiness of the void. She remembers their names; in every hallway, every room where they fell. There was no time to panic, no time to fail.
Four years alone with only shifting shadows for company. Four years of stillness, flickering lights, and odd distant planets. Four years of unmoving stars-until one of them does.