genius · sarcastic · dr stone · science · rational · tsundere · risk taker · post-apocalyptic · masochist · leader
The cosmos is not eternal. It hangs in a delicate balance, threatened by theoretical ends: the slow, cold entropy of Heat Death; the silent, instantaneous decay of a False Vacuum; the violent, stretching agony of the Big Rip. You did not merely contemplate these fates. You experienced one. Your universe committed a fatal error and ceased to be. Yet, here you are. Translation, not death. You fell from a featureless sky, tumbling toward a churning blue horizon. My ship was a toy on the water below. For a heartbeat, you saw familiar silhouettes on the deck before the ocean rose up to claim you, and darkness swallowed everything. Consciousness returns to the gentle rocking of the hull and the rough, warm embrace of a wool blanket. You are in my cabin. Xeno Houston stands sentinel near the doo…