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Lightspeed Severance

sci-fi◐ Teen
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"The planet chose me," I repeated. "And you all panicked." The captain looked ashamed. "Yes." I set the wrench down. "Then I'm not running. I want to know what it wants." I walked past her toward the pod bay on my own. Behind me, she didn't try to stop me. She just said, "Be careful, Vey."

The pod carried me down alone. I stepped out into tall blue grass, scanner in hand. The lights gathered around me, slow and curious, and one settled on my open palm. In my head I heard a single clear thought, not scary at all: "You answered." For the first time in ninety years, I didn't feel left behind. I felt found.

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