The last thing Dr. Aris Thorne heard was the cryo-pods on the Odysseus hissing open, one by one. The crew was waking up. But they weren't alone.
Then, the signal cut out. And the rogue planet continued its drift through the dark, carrying a new, warmer cargo inside its frozen heart.
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He frowned. "What kind of anomaly?"
He worked quickly. The cold seeped through his gloves. As he reconnected the final wire, the pillar hummed to life—but wrong. It was a dissonant chord, a scream hidden inside a whisper. The last thing Dr
"Negative, Doctor. The active pillars are emitting a quantum-entangled waveform. However, the dormant pillar shows residual charge. If you reverse the polarity of the Hecate 's damage, you may restart the lullaby."
The text dissolved into gibberish.
The walls began to sweat. Not ice melt—a black, viscous fluid that oozed from the carvings. It pooled at his feet, and in its reflection, Aris saw something standing behind him.