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"Five minutes, Stitch," a voice crackled through his helmet. It was Mara, the bridge commander. "The Great Red is shifting. The pressure is spiking."

Then, the airlock cycled. Mara’s hands were on his shoulders, pulling him into the pressurized warmth of the airlock.

Kaelen looked left. A funnel, thin as a needle and glowing with a haunting cerulean light, was dropping from the atmosphere. It moved with impossible speed, carving a trench into the metallic soil of the planet below. "Five minutes, Stitch," a voice crackled through his helmet

Kaelen looked at the monitors. The iridium stitches were glowing, vibrating, but holding firm against the infinite tide. He wiped a smear of static-charged soot from his sleeve.

He jammed the final anchor into place and slammed the "Lock" button. The dampener hummed to life, creating a shimmering blue veil of force over the colony's weakest sector. The Piercer hit a second later. The pressure is spiking

Outside, the violet sky turned to black as the Great Red moved back over the sun, and the world began to scream once more.

Kaelen was a "Static-Stitcher." His job was to crawl onto the outer hull of the Aegis Colony during the Eye-Winters—the rare, twenty-minute windows when the winds dropped below two hundred kilometers per hour. He didn't fix machines; he "sewed" the magnetic dampeners that kept the colony from being ripped off its tectonic moorings. A funnel, thin as a needle and glowing

"For today," he whispered. "The storm lets us stay for today."