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“You were choosing,” Elara said. “That’s all any of us ever did. Bad choices. Good intentions. And here we are.”

The black hole drank them whole. The ship shattered into a ring of fire, and then into nothing. MMXXHD

The ship trembled as it entered the outer accretion disk. Gas and dust, heated to millions of degrees, painted the cabin in X-rays. Elara’s radiation suit beeped a warning she ignored. She had stopped listening to warnings a long time ago. “You were choosing,” Elara said

Cassian was silent for a moment. Then he began. “You were choosing