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EPISODE FIVE: …
Mathew runs his fingers over the spines of the worn books, his brow furrowed in concentration. The colony does not keep many written records—most knowledge is passed through word of mouth, through shared stories and lessons taught by experience.
But there are some things that must be written down.
He finds what he is looking for.
A journal, bound in faded leather, its pages brittle with age.
He turns to the page he remembers.
The first settlers. The ones who came before.
It is a story rarely spoken of.
Sarah knows the version the elders tell—the simple one, the one made to sound like history rather than warning.
They arrived on this moon decades ago, long before the Perseverance. They built homes, they lived, they worked, just as this colony does now.
But they did not last.
No one speaks of what happened to them.
There is no memorial, no graves, no remnants of their presence. Only the stories, vague and unfinished, passed down through whispers.
Jonas leans over Mathew’s shoulder. “What does it say?â€
Mathew hesitates. “Not much. Just that they disappeared.â€
Jonas frowns. “All of them?â€
“All of them.â€
Sarah watches them from the doorway, a strange unease settling in her chest.
She does not believe in ghosts.
But some stories feel like warnings.
