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The entire station glowed emergency red. Somewhere below, beneath the panels, something howled and scraped metal. The sensors on the control panel in front of Jungkook showed nothing good.

Taehyung sat on the floor, his back against the empty incubator. A baby mouse trembled in his palm, nested in tattered rags. Taehyung stroked its head with his fingertip. The mouse nuzzled the knuckle, searching for food. The entire colony, all the samples, everything—either suffocated or suffocated.

Jungkook looked at them, then turned his gaze to the escape pod. There was only one. Small, old, but still capable of launching with a parachute. There was no need to count on anything; it was only for one person. For one person and a mouse. But two people couldn't fit in there. Not even a chance.

Jungkook wiped the blood from his cut eyebrow with his sleeve, walked over and jerked Taehyung up by the collar.

— Listen up. You're being evacuated. We need to hurry before we lose even the module.

Taehyung shook his head, and the mouse squeaked in his fist. Without looking, Jungkook shoved a supply of water and a tube of glucose into his breast pocket. He roughly, without a word, shoved him into the hatch, which was already hissing, losing pressure.

Taehyung grabbed the edge of the hatch and pulled Jungkook by the sleeve, but Jungkook grabbed his wrist, squeezed it painfully, and unclenched Taehyung's fingers one by one.

• Come on, zoologist. You'll meet the dawn on Earth.

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