The Decompression Alert alarm wailed like the shriek of a trapped spirit caught between the steel walls of the Aura-Zero space station. At an altitude of two hundred miles above Earth's surface, silence was the deadliest predator, but within the central sector corridor, that sound was replaced by the roar of wind blasting out through small cracks in the wall panels. Mateo Rossi collapsed, his body clad in a tactical spacesuit feeling as heavy as lead as the station's artificial gravity system began to flicker wildly, shifting between 0.2 G and normal gravity in a matter of seconds.
"Damn it... our life support system is leaking!" Mateo cursed. His voice was distorted by his own ragged breathing behind the helmet visor. He crawled with stiff movements, his Kevlar-gloved fingers trying to r
