89. Obfusc “Our Signals Coalesce” Midnight Dome [Boltfish]
Moment @ 3:24
He rode on a star. He had been floating there amongst the weightless miasma for nearly three days (or at least that’s what they called these periods of time back on the ship, or even more often and with more conviction, back on Earth) and then for a split second before he died he realized that’s what he was doing. Everyone had thought for so long that it would be impossible for humanity to literally reach out and touch the stars (so much so that the phrase once upon a time was used to describe the kind of wishful dreaming a child would experience, hungry for fame or love or both), but here he was, dying while doing something that no one else had ever done. He had stale sweat on his brow and could barely recognize his own consciousness after spinning in space for countless hours (though he had managed to check the running clock on his suit to know how long it had been since his ship had left him for dead), so this wasn’t exactly the kind of cinematic climax of an explicable tragedy where the protagonist could articulate and properly assess their life in the wake of such horror, regardless of its beauty or significance. He just kind of half-swam through the void with barely any understanding of the blinding force that took him out. He saw it and he had a lingering thought of the end and then the star took him away and continued shining.
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