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The Shuddering Breath I Became

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   The Shuddering Breath I Became The cryo unit hisses open, and I remember my name: JB, pilot of the *Subi*. The med-techs call it “revitalisation.” My body hums with a new, raw power. Muscles knit with synthetic fibres, bones laced with carbon-filament. I feel incredible. Invincible. But in the polished chrome of the med-bay wall, my reflection is a stranger. The eyes are mine, but they glow with a faint, amber diagnostic light. The scar from the asteroid scrape is gone, replaced by skin too perfect, too seamless. They say they rebuilt me better. Stronger. To survive the long dark. But when I clench my fist, I hear a servo-whine they insist isn’t there. When I calculate a jump vector, the numbers resolve instantly in my mind, not on a screen. Is this their design? A monster of efficiency, crafted for a purpose I didn’t choose? Or is the monster the part of me that wanted this? The part that, bleeding out in my crippled cockpit, whispered *yes* to any salvation? Did I consent...

Jupiter has devoured our offspring

 


Jupiter has devoured our offspring.

This isn't the celestial gluttony we should be pointing at. Our kind of earthly troubles can't be solved by looking to the heavens and muttering incantations.

So, when you tell yourself Jupiter's to blame, with his godly appetite and stormy disposition, take a closer look in the mirror. There may be an element of truth deep within the grandeur of myth, but it is far more accessible in the boots you wear.







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