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“Good work, Saito.”

Now I watch the same blue-and-white marble spin beneath my boots, and I feel nothing. That’s the part they don’t tell you about in the recruitment brochures. Not the danger, not the radiation, not the bone atrophy. They don’t tell you that the most terrifying thing in the universe isn’t the vacuum or the cold or the endless dark. It’s the boredom. firstclass pov

A crackle in my helmet speaker. “Saito, this is Solstice. Status report.” “Good work, Saito