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Kaira sat in the co-pilot’s chair, staring out at the stars. She was convinced she could feel the cold of interstellar space pressing in around her, the seemingly endless nothingness stretching from where they were to the so-distant points of light.
She found herself wondering whether anyone had ever stopped in exactly that spot in space before. Whether she and Tarkus were the first to visit it… and whether they might be the last.
There was a beauty to it all, the view and the thought they might be the only ones ever to visit that patch of space. But it was also chilling. Even if the ship had enough food aboard to survive a decade or longer travelling without jump, the idea of being stuck on a spaceship for such a long time was unbearable. With or without Tarkus for company.
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