air was freezing, thick with the metallic tang of old copper and ozone. Her breath plumed in the beam of light, a fragile cloud of white that dissipated against the towering, rib-like

She stepped through the threshold, the beam of her shoulder-mounted beacon cutting a sharp path through the absolute dark of the newly opened chamber. Here, deep in the ship’s dead belly, the

She stepped through the threshold, the beam of her shoulder-mounted beacon cutting a sharp path through the absolute dark of the newly opened chamber. Here, deep in the ship’s dead

She stepped through the threshold, the beam of her shoulder-mounted beacon cutting a sharp path through the absolute dark of the newly opened chamber. Here, deep in the ship’s dead belly, the

...the heavy bulkhead door finally broke its seal, sliding back into the recess of the hull. A cloud of frozen condensation hissed out into the vacuum, sparkling like a brief, dying galaxy before vanishing