Kinzie Eighty-Eight

[Snoflek]

O-Ohkay keep it together...Keep it together....I can...I can fix this

She stared non-believingly at the main console on the bridge. The Bridge room wasn't too large,
enough for a crew of perhaps three to five to work comfortably, more in a pinch. The display she was looking at was at the main helmsman's display.

Think Kinzie...Think....

She chided herself, trying to work some kind of idea. Nothing seemed to come to her, as she slowly watched the display timer tick down to her almost inevitable death. Then, it hit her.

The plan she had in mind wasn't exactly the safest, voiding the Reactor Core would leave the ship un-powered, but she didn't exactly see many alternative options. She dragged herself back out through the broken door, and hurried down to the Engineering Core, where the reactor would be. As she stepped into the Core, she was hit by a wave of radiation from the leaking reactor, the exposure surely not the greatest for her long term health.

Come on...there has to be a shutdown...something...a manual....There!

She hurried over to a manual core release. Putting all of her weight behind it, she slowly dislodged it, and opened up the core vent, sending the leaking reactor hurtling out into space. Panting, she slowly sat down,
hugging her knees to her chest. It was over. As she saw the electronics flicker and die, she felt she would be over too, sooner rather than later.

I-it's going to be okay...it'll be okay...

She told herself, hoping to fool herself into believing. She was in the guts of the rotting scraps of a ship, without a Reactor, with no food or water, and a limited amount of Oxygen. If she survived the next twenty-four hours, it'd take a miracle.