Beyond lay a darkness so profound it uprooted something in my chest.
The event horizon – where escape velocity exceeded the speed of light. The point of no return and those words echoed in my mind the way my voice had under the floor.
. . . turn . . . urn . . . urn.
I set my hand on the window. The mammoth density throbbed against my fingertips. These were the dark abysses of the universe, the eternally unknowable infinities.
Chapter 1
The sight was disorienting. Profound, terrible darkness. What could possibly live out here?
Null space cleansed of nearly all the fundamental assets that foster life - light, warmth, air, food - so that the only lifeforms that lived in it should be, by definition, less than whole.
-Fides Cordis