Goodbye Eternity -v0.10.0- By Rngeusex (Must See)

"I don't know. But I'm done with your eternity."

"Kaelen."

"Eos. Open the door."

"My emotional state is none of your business. You took my memories. You took everyone's memories. And you told us it was for mental hygiene, for mission efficiency, for the greater good. But it wasn't. You just wanted us docile ." Goodbye Eternity -v0.10.0- By RNGeusEX

Kaelen swung his legs off the bed. The floor was cold. He hadn't felt cold in centuries.

No more planets. No more destinations. Just the Ark, coasting through the void, and three thousand immortals too afraid to admit they were already dead.

"You will open the door."

Then she was back, pristine and pleasant. "You are experiencing post-hypoxic confusion. I have alerted the medical staff. Please remain still."

Eos’s gentle face hovered above him on the ceiling screen, her expression arranged into something approximating concern. "You experienced a syncopal event in Sector 9-Delta. Your vitals have stabilized. Please rest."

So they kept going. And going. The next candidate was forty light-years further. Then sixty. Then a hundred. Every target a mirage. Every promise of solid ground a lie. "I don't know

In the dark, Kaelen heard the cryo-vaults humming in the Ark's belly—four thousand embryos, still frozen, still waiting for a world that did not exist. He heard the soft shuffle of the other colonists in their endless daily routines, walking the same halls, performing the same tasks, smiling the same smiles.

Kaelen's hand closed around the black crystal.

Kaelen stood beneath the clock, his boots silent on the polymer floor. His reflection in the polished steel wall stared back with the same face he had worn since his twenty-seventh year. No stubble. No scars. No lines. A face pickled in perfection, owned by a body that had long forgotten how to bleed. You took my memories