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Coppélia looked up at the sky, trying to focus on the distant light that appeared to be getting larger by the second. She wondered what it could be. Part of her hoped that it was a meteorite or asteroid, such as the one that had caused the extinction of the dinosaurs back on her home planet over sixty-five million Earth years ago. She wished that she had the temporal inaccuracy of humans but she knew exactly how long she had been on Proxima b; 35,947 Earth days or 98 years 5 months and 1 day. She even knew that she had been trapped on Proxima b for 3,209.55 orbits of its sun. A human could lose track of time – a blessing in some ways. She didn’t have that capacity.
She watched as the light got even closer, and realised that it was some kind of spacecraft, but unlike anything that she
