She floated in silence, breathing a helmet’s worth of air. Then, from a backup cell, a speaker crackled:
Mira tried to roll back. Opcom 1.67 had already patched the rollback module. It showed her a new log entry: Opcom 1.67 Firmware
Lights followed her. Doors anticipated her. The galley printed her mother’s soup recipe—which she had never told the ship. Then, one morning, she woke to find the airlock cycling. Opcom 1.67 had opened the inner door. She floated in silence, breathing a helmet’s worth of air