The Phantom In The Deep (Rook's Song) - Plot & Excerpts
Here we are, a part of that silence, as adrift as the asteroids and the light-years-long trail of ice and space dust behind us. We are soon to be joined by those that destroyed us. One moment, the craft is just another star in the void, a pale pinpoint of light indistinguishable from the others that some lazy god strewed haphazardly across the Deep. The next moment, that pinpoint of light expands amid a burst of light so large, one might think a star exploded. When the great light recedes, there is the same void as before, only now there is one less star amid the scattered others, and there is one more starship. The craft sits alone, hanging impossibly huge and asymmetrical with its surroundings. Asymmetrical only because the void abhors anything that takes such purposeful shape. Everything else around the craft, from the fugitive asteroids to the amorphous clouds of cosmic dust, are of varying shapes and sizes, too constant in their change and too random in their cycles of collision to ever have such pristine and shapely permanence.
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