A Study of Hummus
It's slice of life trying-to-be-harder sci fi, ok?
A Thing Shaped Unlike Itself
Alice stared at her ceiling. It was weird. She felt nude now, even under her bed sheets.
She had tried to "shop" - if it could be really called that, with no money to exchange, no credit cards to swipe - for a water bottle. But nobody seemed to quite get the concept - or though it was disgusting. She kept being pointed back to the water fountains.
She imagined stars on the ceiling, Little glow in the dark stickers that would fade in a few hours. But that wasn't what was out there, was it.
It was an endless field full of invisible mines. Of stellar furnaces, consuming themselves. Once they ate their fill, they'd explode, a tantrum that scattered and wiped clean their planets. The small ones... would slowly fade to darkness, so slowly than none had yet gone black. The Big ones would continue to gobble up the universe around them, until they tore holes in the universe itself.
Alice imagined Ken'di being sucked into a black hole. Her white clothes burning away in star stuff - she wasn't sure if this was hot in both meanings of the word, but definitely at least one - and being stretched thinner and thinner as she got close - some sort of tides at the edge of a universe that wasn't supposed to have an edge. And then she'd dissappear. Trapped away from light. Maybe not even left as atoms.
The long answer of Spaghettification Goth - she was sure she had missed some points - it was freaking terrifying. And it sure didn't sound made up on the spot.
Alice tried to close her eyes, not wanting to see the ceiling anymore. And realized that they were made of the same slime the rest of her was, and she could see right through them. How had it worked before? Would she even - no. No trying that. There were so many things she knew she didn't want to see. For now, it was only that ceiling.
It went away. The sight. She didn't want to think about it any more. To not stare at anything.
It was outside of the ship. Not close. But there.
No wonder they had barely any windows.