"If we jump now, we might tear the hull," Elias warned. "If we wait ten minutes for a full charge, the gate will be gone. We'll be ghosts in this sector."
Elias exhaled, his hands shaking. He looked back at the space behind them. The nebula was gone. The window had vanished as if it had never existed. "We made it," he whispered. my_naxodimsya_pered_oknom_vozmoznostei_oni_pere...
"No," Kaelen corrected, leaning back as the consoles flickered to life. "We took it." "If we jump now, we might tear the hull," Elias warned
The digital clock on the wall of the "Aetheris" station didn't tick; it hummed, a low-frequency vibration that Elias felt in his marrow. Outside the reinforced glass, the Great Nebula was folding in on itself—a celestial curtain closing on the only jump-gate that could lead them home. He looked back at the space behind them