The alarms grew louder. The other shards—the screaming Kaelens—stopped running and turned to stare.
"You failed, Kaelen! You flew into a sun and you broke! That's the truth. Now what are you going to do about it?" xpt trainer
The moment he entered, the storm hit.
Marcus pointed at the raging inferno on the viewscreen. "That's not the sun, kid. That's your ego. You thought a perfect pilot doesn't make mistakes. So when you made one, your mind ate itself. You didn't shatter because of the radiation. You shattered because you couldn't handle being human ." The alarms grew louder
Kaelen’s mind wasn't just broken. It was a supernova of fear. Marcus found himself standing on the bridge of the quantum-freighter, alarms blaring, the viewscreen a blinding white. A hundred Kaelens ran past him, each one screaming a different terror: "The radiation spike!" "We're going to burn!" "I made a mistake!" "I killed them all!" You flew into a sun and you broke
Now, he was just a man in a rain-slicked alley, watching his life's work dissolve into data-static.