Week 9 - Finding Serenity

[streetnights]

She pivots, weightless, and then springs off of the bulkhead behind her. The red lights are flashing through the ship, and in some corner of her mind, she wonders at the rotational cycle of the twirling. She quickly ignores it, though, focusing on the more pressing matter: not dying

Comments

[jem0000000]

Yikes. I hope she makes it okay.

[streetnights]

Well, she's alive, which is a start. It all depends on who finds her, I think...

[adoptedwriter]

Hope she is ok. I want to find out what happens next! AW

[streetnights]

I think she gets found, eventually, near a brilliant marble of a planet.

[theun4givables]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for her, but jesus that doesn't seem like a situation anyone would survive. D: Definitely a tense read!

[streetnights]

I think people have a way of snatching on to the thinnest strands of hope and chance and making it out of things surprisingly. We're not known for our penchant to lie down and die, you know?

[theun4givables]

We're really not. That's why I have my fingers crossed. ;)

[halfshellvenus]

Given how bad this situation is, the pod is the only hope she has left. It sounds as if she'll be unconscious whatver happens afterward-- either being saved, or simply lost somewhere in space.

[streetnights]

I wonder which would be better: a silent unconsciousness that eventually ends, or one where she wakes - but to what? to who?

[lrig_rorrim]

You do sci-fi really, really well - the details are all perfect here, and there's not a word gone to waste. We get such a sense for her character, and for her desperate situation. Awesome!

[streetnights]

Thanks! Sci-fi is one of the more comfortable places for me, and it tends to flow easily. I try not to fall back on it too much, though, because I think that's just lazy.