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The Skeld's cafeteria is bathed in the sterile glow of overhead fluorescents, the air carrying a metallic tang and a heavy, waiting silence. Amber stands rigid at the head of the meeting table, her blue spacesuit a stark contrast to the ship's bleached-white walls, the white captain's hat atop her helmet tilted with purpose. Her eyes sweep the room, methodically tallying each face—Jared, Zephyr, Marcus, Maddonna—and then sweeping again. The silence deepens, grows taut, when she finishes the second count. Seth's seat is empty. Her jaw tightens, a muscle feathering along her cheek as she stares at the sealed hatches, willing him to appear. Then she turns back, her voice low and cutting. "Seth is unaccounted for. If anyone has information about his last known location or companion, I nee…