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LOG#101 | ★
Everything hurts.
That's good at least. It must mean I'm still alive.
As I return to this existence, I muster all my might to crack my eyes open. Alarm quickly overtakes me when I find my surroundings shrouded in a heavy blur. Is my eyesight damaged?
I look down to check my body. My suit's a rough sight: charred gray and nearly torn to shreds. I'm glad it did its job in protecting me for the most part.
It's not blurred though.
One other thing in my surroundings isn't blurred: my ship. Or rather, what's left of it, which isn't much.
The poor thing took a beating. Ripping me out of it would've taken gargantuan force, but that blast fit the bill. It'll be a while before it's ready for flight again.
But my eyesight is okay at least. It's the world that's blurred. The people-blobs really-passing by don't seem to notice the strange sight of me; am I incorporeal to them? I've been propped up in a chair, also indistinct. I must've been brought here after the explosion, though I don't remember seeing anyone. Perhaps I was found later.
Then I notice it: an out-of-place echo. Not of a particular noise, but rather the environment itself, as if something is camouflaged by filling in the auditory space. There's a rift here, tiny, just large enough to fit my head through if I wanted. I spot telltale shimmering a short distance away.
More surprises. I've not been able to create one within a planet's environment; they're tricky to work with even in the near-vacuum of space. Yet here one is. My rescuer must've brought me here through it. I'd guess they're long gone by now.
Someone knows a lot more about rifts than I do. It's unnerving.
Speaking of rifts…
Was it truly a supernova that was rifted to engulf that world? What else could it have been? To imagine such a thing is possible-saying nothing of survival in such proximity when it burst.
Mystery abounds. Something big is happening, but the details are as fuzzy as my surroundings.
I need to rest and heal.
And think.
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