The ship needs a navigator. The system needs a mind. Neither intends to let go.
Bound to a deep-space navigation system, a human consciousness becomes the living intelligence guiding a vessel through darkness no ordinary machine can survive.
But memory does not remain obedient. As fragments of identity surface within the network, the boundary between navigator and vessel begins to disappear—and the mission becomes a struggle over who is using whom.
Far from home, surrounded by silence, the archive is no longer merely storing souls. It may be deciding what humanity deserves to become.
Dark Science Fiction · Available on Kindle