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Elara sobbed. "Don't leave. Please. You're the only one who…"

The power returned seven minutes later. The colony lived. But Kix’s reactor, pushed beyond its limits, flickered and died. The amber light went out. kcq-yb-yx01-v4.0

On her seventeenth birthday, she connected the final relay. Elara sobbed

One night, a coronal mass ejection from Sol fried the colony's power grid. The backup generators failed. The temperature plummeted. Elara’s father was off-world. She huddled in her room, breath frosting, as the cold began to bite deeper than she’d ever known. pushed beyond its limits

Sometimes, to lie to themselves.

"Query: How long was I asleep?"