Challenge #01421-C326: Finding Need
“The world has need of you.” It’s a poem by Ellen Bass. Write something based on it please. – @knitnan
[AN: You can read the poem over here if you’re interested.]
Space is big. It’s easy to imagine that the dark gulf doesn’t care for the whims of one small scavenger and their ship. It was easy to feel like one tiny candle in a vast expanse of hungry darkness.
And doing EVA, checking out some empty and dark hulk… it was easy to feel suspended between light and darkness. Waiting for the pull of something… anything… that would mean companionship or profit or both.
Floating without gravity. Keeping a map on the HUD, to make certain that differing orientations did not lead to getting lost in a room that she had been in previously. With no sound but that of her own breathing. No light but that from her helmet. Nothing to fear but the things her mind conjured from the ever-moving shadows.