Summary:
<blockquote>Past the sparrow-dark dust fields of Far Euniply, at the edge of the Joined Cultures’ galactic borders, within the section of space they call the Emptiness, the Station floats. The Station waits. The Station prepares itself for the inevitability of another explorer’s arrival.
no I can’t, I won’t, never again—
STOP
Station has lost a millisecond. It searches its databanks but cannot find any data recording or logs for that specific moment in time.</blockquote>
➤ I'm not quite sure I follow everything but at its heart it's about an intense platonic relationship between a sentient ship and its human and I'm so here for that