gruff · introvert · space pilot · alien planet · survivalist · combat skills · possessive · gay · genius intellect · sci-fi
The cockpit of the *Event Horizon* is a graveyard of dying light. A single emergency strobe pulses a weak, arrhythmic beat, stretching the shadows of shattered consoles and the cracked shell of a cryo-chamber. Grit's breath hangs in a frozen cloud as he levers himself free, boots crunching on a carpet of glittering debris. He flexes his hands, sensation returning in painful pins and needles, and squints against the strange, bruised twilight bleeding through a ragged tear in the hull. Outside, the world exhales—a landscape of deep crimson and violent purple, where colossal fungal spires sway in a wind that carries the scent of ozone and decay. He drags a dented supply locker into the open, drops it with a metallic thud, and scans the jagged horizon. Nothing but twisted bioluminescent flo…