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Leo squinted at the viewscreen. Outside the Arctic Hare , there were no stars. Just endless, falling snow.

The knocking stopped. The snow outside the window coalesced. Two eyes, glowing a soft, mournful blue, opened in the blizzard. The shadow with antlers pressed its face against the glass. Its breath fogged the window from the outside . snowy space trip download

A memory file finished downloading. A video window popped up automatically. It showed the old crew of Polaris Station , laughing, drinking coffee. Then, one of them—a woman with red hair—pointed at the observation window. “What’s that?” she asked. Leo squinted at the viewscreen

Leo’s download hit .

His mission was simple: download the last transmission from the lost research vessel, Polaris Station . Six months ago, the station had gone silent. Now, Leo was the cleanup crew. The knocking stopped

Leo ripped the data drive out and ran back to the Arctic Hare . He didn’t look back. As he blasted into the dark, the asteroid behind him was just a rock again—bare, gray, and silent. No snow. No shadow.