Seen from outside, what remained of Starlight Beacon looked even more broken and doomed than Bell would’ve expected—and he’d expected it to be bad. But his eyes widened as he took in the full horror: the bent, broken metal beams jabbing upward from the ugly break, the few standing walls from the break level that revealed where rooms—and people—had been, the forbidding darkness of a station largely illuminated only by emergency lights, so that it glowed sickly orange in the dark. Worst of all, the curve of Eiram’s surface had come to cover almost the entire horizon, and Bell could feel the
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