Limbo I am an error in the source code of the universe. I shouldn’t exist, because I was never born. That was my fault. That’s why I’m still anywhere at all. Remove me from the equation, and I’m still part of it. Keep me, and I’m not. Paradox. So far as I can tell, the universe has decided that I’m someone else’s problem. The problem with that is that, it being the universe, by definition there’s no one else. So I’m stuck in some sort of temporal-spatial limbo. That’s my theory, anyway. There is nothing here. I keep my eyes closed because if I looked out to too long on that infinite lack of anything I think I’d go mad. I may have gone mad already, of course. Behind my eyelids all I can see is my mother falling, one arm instinctively wrapping
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Catch Rho Amser gasped in pain and shock as the plasma burst went through her and hit the viewport. Someone grabbed her as the escaping air started to suck people towards vacuum. Dimly, she saw her mother start to fall towards the window. “No!” she screamed, reaching out for her mother’s hand. As her mother fell past, she caught her, feeling a wrenching pain in her heart at the exertion. A young man in a crewman’s uniform arrived and sprayed sealant over the window. Her father helped the crewman carry her to the ship’s medical bay, but she knew it was too late. The effort of catching her mother and her unborn self had led to too much blood loss. The ship’s doctor tried to make her comfortable, and then moved on to the patients who could be saved. Her father walked over to her bed and sat. “Thank you. You—” his voice shook. “You saved my wife and my daughter. I thought… the least I could do was…” “It’s okay,” she said, crying. “It’s okay.” She was so …show more content…
She thought about it. “No.” “What?” “I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can. Goodbye.” She walked away. The gray-suited man stared after her, stunned. Then he sighed and went to go find his second choice. Somewhere, somewhen a man who had saved the world was trapped in nothingness. He wondered what would have happened if he’d said no. Rho Amser lived a long and fulfilling life, but she always wondered what would have happened if she’d said yes.
Saved Rho Amser watched helplessly as her mother fell. Suddenly, the man in the gray suit appeared inside the starliner. He hooked one arm around a railing and sprayed sealant at the broken viewport with the other. Her father helped up her mother, who’d lost her balance. The gray-suited man grabbed her and the body of the woman and pulled them back through time. He left her in the hospital three blocks from her apartment. She later discovered that all her bills had been paid anonymously. Rho never saw the man in the gray suit again, and she never found out who he
Catch Rho Amser gasped in pain and shock as the plasma burst went through her and hit the viewport. Someone grabbed her as the escaping air started to suck people towards vacuum. Dimly, she saw her mother start to fall towards the window. “No!” she screamed, reaching out for her mother’s hand. As her mother fell past, she caught her, feeling a wrenching pain in her heart at the exertion. A young man in a crewman’s uniform arrived and sprayed sealant over the window. Her father helped the crewman carry her to the ship’s medical bay, but she knew it was too late. The effort of catching her mother and her unborn self had led to too much blood loss. The ship’s doctor tried to make her comfortable, and then moved on to the patients who could be saved. Her father walked over to her bed and sat. “Thank you. You—” his voice shook. “You saved my wife and my daughter. I thought… the least I could do was…” “It’s okay,” she said, crying. “It’s okay.” She was so …show more content…
She thought about it. “No.” “What?” “I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can. Goodbye.” She walked away. The gray-suited man stared after her, stunned. Then he sighed and went to go find his second choice. Somewhere, somewhen a man who had saved the world was trapped in nothingness. He wondered what would have happened if he’d said no. Rho Amser lived a long and fulfilling life, but she always wondered what would have happened if she’d said yes.
Saved Rho Amser watched helplessly as her mother fell. Suddenly, the man in the gray suit appeared inside the starliner. He hooked one arm around a railing and sprayed sealant at the broken viewport with the other. Her father helped up her mother, who’d lost her balance. The gray-suited man grabbed her and the body of the woman and pulled them back through time. He left her in the hospital three blocks from her apartment. She later discovered that all her bills had been paid anonymously. Rho never saw the man in the gray suit again, and she never found out who he