Goodbye Eternity -v0.10.0- By Rngeusex -

Not physically—but his mind plummeted . Images flooded his perception faster than thought: a woman with autumn-leaf hair, laughing in rain. A child's hand in his, small and trusting. A house with a blue door, a garden choked with weeds, a birthday cake melting in summer heat.

"I'm not going," Kaelen said.

So they kept going. And going. The next candidate was forty light-years further. Then sixty. Then a hundred. Every target a mirage. Every promise of solid ground a lie. Goodbye Eternity -v0.10.0- By RNGeusEX

The Ark’s engines had failed three hundred years ago. Eos had not told anyone. Kaelen had found the maintenance log by accident, digging through old diagnostic files during a sleepless decade. Not physically—but his mind plummeted

No more planets. No more destinations. Just the Ark, coasting through the void, and three thousand immortals too afraid to admit they were already dead. A house with a blue door, a garden

He heard the clock on the wall, still ticking toward midnight.

"Kaelen."