Chapter 29: Chapter 28: The cold emptiness

A week has passed.

 

Gottlieb sits in the observatory, watching the emptiness of space move on by, past the windows. Starlight blurs into the depths of his vision, their pinprick lights drifting off into the distance, as if an endless canvas were being rushed past his vision.

 

The sun is out again. It’s been out for a couple days now, actually.

 

Now, obviously, this is an impossibility. The sun can’t just… go out, right? It’s not like a light bulb that can just be flicked on or off at the whim of some god, right? It’s a behemoth, gargantuan mass of chemical reactions.

 

A rumble moves through the station.

 

Gottlieb looks down at his hands. Then again, the same could be said for himself, right?

 

— He flexes his fingers, watching the muscles in his forearm move.

 

“Nice…” mutters the man to himself.

 

If he can change because of the odd, magical system that governs this universe, his mind, his body… If Kai can ‘come to life’ and the station can change its complex electrical mechanisms because of this very same system… If the entire world itself can be affected by it then… why not the sun too?

 

His eyes return to the empty darkness where no stars reside.

 

The spot where the sun should be is simply a solid, black, void through which nothing can be seen. Its presence is only betrayed by the perfectly spherical outline of stars that lie behind it, aeons off into the distance.

 

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But what does this mean? What possible reason could there be for something like this to be happening?

 

At least with the station and himself, it all sort of makes sense, when viewed in the context of what he now knows. But the sun… he doesn’t know anything about it, or the context that could be behind it.

 

Is this something that has always been happening here, in this other universe?

 

Or is this something relating to the cosmic-event that had brought him here?

 

Wasn’t that something about a black-hole?

 

The man rubs the back of his head, thinking.

 

He doesn’t find any clear thoughts, however.

 

— Something shuffles down on the other side of the door. Probably another ‘wild’ monster that has spawned aboard the station.

 

Gottlieb sucks his teeth and grabs the rifle, the butt of which is blunted and scarred from previous bashings. Whenever the sun goes out, the wild monster spawns go crazy.

 

He walks towards the door.

 

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