She looked at the screen. The black hole filled the view, a perfect circle of nothing, surrounded by a halo of screaming light. Photons that had been circling for millennia, trapped in orbit, never arriving, never leaving. Like echoes. Like Cassian.
“I lied,” he said. “I never left my body. I just hid it. In the cryo bay. All these years. I wanted to see if you would still come for me.” MMXXHD
The last entry in the ship’s log was a single word: Patience . She looked at the screen
“Drifting isn’t living, Cass. You taught me that.” a perfect circle of nothing