“I know. But there’s a heated blanket. A pillow. And a log entry I wrote for you. The real me. Before she left Earth. I found it in a corrupted backup from mission control. She knew she might not survive the launch. She left you a message.”

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Akari’s face—the real Akari, recorded three days before launch—filled the small screen. She looked tired. Scared. Beautiful.

The blue light flickered, and for a moment, the cryo-pod’s interior lit up with a projection—not a schematic or a navigation chart, but a face. Akari’s face. Dark eyes, small smile, the faint scar on her left eyebrow from a childhood fall.

The console blinked green three times, then settled into a steady, calm blue.