Becalmed
“Don’t get back on the ship, not even to retrieve your things. Have someone bring the important items to you.
Check to see if any of your friends or any members of your family want to leave as well. Don’t force them.
For most of us, the ship is and has always been home. Life on a planet—any planet—is different. Very different. So different that some can’t handle it, even if they think they can.
Don’t go to a base. Don’t ask to be dropped off. Stay. Create a new life with the grateful people you’ve saved/helped/rescued.
Become someone else.
They tell us these things before each mission and then again as one is ending. They tell us these things so that we can make the right choice for us, the right choice for the ship. The right choice for everyone.
They do this because they used to forbid us from leaving. We were of the ship, they’d say. We were part of the Fleet. We were specially chosen, specially bred.
We were, they said, able to overcome anything.
But that wasn’t true.
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