2024-05-22
(2 chapters, 7756 words)
In escaping a damaged research vessel, Trooper Alex Raine finds herself orbiting a habitable planet, by herself, in a tiny escape pod. She does not want to be alone in space, which makes the arrival of an alien creature something both horrifying and… hopeful.
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