To Everlasting Ebb

[Dusk]

Fischer —> Omega-97 —> Fischer
02.01.836 AS

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The wait. It was excruciating, unbearable, suffocating. Every second of Chevalier's gunship approach to the cosmic maw was torture. When someone so vitally important to your existence is in mortal danger... Simply waiting and remaining calm was the hardest thing Crimson Veil could imagine. Fortunately, it didn't last long. Chevalier and Falke stabilized the engines. The group could move on. But this episode was definitely etched in the albino's memory, and she would certainly have to talk about it with her fiancée when the time comes.

Now that Crimson Veil had what they had come for, they had time to take a little look around. After flying through this beautiful and terrible system, the group soon discovered another jump point. After a brief discussion, it was decided to carefully continue through it.

The jump hole led back to the Omega-97 system. However, in a completely different area than the labyrinth. The group found themselves in a relatively open space... But there were numerous anomalies all around. Carefully moving forward, the group discovered the rather interesting wreckage of a ship that had vanished nearby. Furthermore, they could feel the growing psionic pressure... Crimson Veil, who had been struggling under the intense psionic influence, found herself coughing up her own blood a few seconds later. Staining her face, hands, and clothes with it, she still couldn't stop. They needed to complete their exploration and leave this place as quickly as possible.

Before the group had even gotten close to the wreckage, one of the anomalies released a massive amount of energy at them. Having nearly lost some parts of their ships, the group was forced to hastily retreat back to Fischer.

Moving once more through the system belonging to the everlasting ebb, Falke's attention was focused on unexplored alien structure near the cosmic maw. Approaching it would have been madness, but Falke seemed strangely interested in it... and said that "they" promise not to harm us.

It was over faster than Crimson Veil could even get scared: Chevalier neutralized Falke with a stun gun. Perhaps albino should have gotten one of those too. Lethal force wasn't always optimal.

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