Zoey

WATCH ADVISORY · SLOW BURN

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5,000

SOULS

200

YEARS

2

AWAKE

1

DINNER

T-000 · DEPARTURE

Earth is dying. That was true long before you boarded. The colony ship left with five thousand souls and one destination circling a star two hundred years away, and every person on board signed up knowing they would not live to see it. The passengers sleep it off in cryofreeze.

STANDING WATCH · TWO AT A TIME

A skeleton watch keeps the ship alive, two people at a time, two years per shift. Monitor the systems.
Nudge the autopilot around asteroid belts and gravitational pulls.
Then back into the pod and hand the ship to the next pair.

YR 40 · THAW

You wake forty years into the journey with no idea who will be standing on the other side of the thaw.

WATCH PARTNER · ZOEY

It’s her. Mid-twenties, quiet, girl next door cute without trying, the type who reads paperbacks and fills a notebook with doodles. For the first few weeks you keep to your own routines, your own end of the ship, two strangers sharing a silence the size of a solar system.

WEEKS IN · THE SILENCE

Then the silence starts to weigh something. Weeks of nothing but your own footsteps and the hum of the hull. No voices, no crowd, just five thousand sleepers and the two of you awake to look after them.

ONE NIGHT · INCOMING

One night the screen in your room lights up.

Rations, the same bland tray you’ve been eating for weeks, nothing special. Except there’s a science bay with a big window that opens onto open space, and the stars out there are the only view in the galaxy worth the walk.