Snubnose

[Unseelie]

Pressure cubes last exactly 3 days without power, before they begin breaking down. Pair that with lack of water, and radiation punching through the thin hull...people die. Four thousand, two hundred, ninety five people. The scent of decay, of bacteria eating through intestines, with that same bacteria floating up, getting inside internal atmosphere scrubbers attached to a bay never meant to contain live cargo, one that usually stank of rot and feces...now stank of death. Four thousand two hundred ninety five dead, mortified people, each packed into a cube eighty cm to a side. The scrubbers passed it up to the command deck...

Sophie lay curled around the husk of a young girl...her blood pooled and congealing on the deck.

Three RM pilots had chased the WhippingGirl from the docks of New Berlin, to the edge of Omega-56. During the escape, Sophie's rear compartment was punctured by micro-asteroids while the shields were down. The compartment was sealed off, and it slowly depressurized. Sophie had sent her plaything, a young girl, to fetch more cardamine. She slowly suffocated, and the cardamine was sealed off from the forward compartment.

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