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Time crawled.
Everything for her was a long, boring blur, until she only had two days’ worth of food.
Then, impending death started to feel real.
Her stomach grumbled as she tried to remind herself that she was only going to eat one meal today.
Today…
She’d lost track of time.
She thought she had been on the ship for three days, but she wasn’t sure. Time just passed. There were no suns. No seasons. Just relentless darkness. She’d heard stories from the old days on Earth about places where it was dark for six months out of the year, and she wondered how those people coped.
She didn’t mind the darkness. What drove her crazy was not knowing the time. The ship’s clock had died after the ten percent fuel mark. Only the absolute essentials were online now. The radio, the water pressur
