The Void

CHAPTER 3

The images were reflected back hundreds of times in the multi-faceted compound eyes of the ant as it stared into the bay area through the door’s porthole-like window. It was the highest insect of the pyramid of tiny bodies, and its antenna twitched as it sensed for vibrations.

Though no sound emanated through the hermetically sealed door, it could see the mouths of all three beings were open, and the tiny insect felt the vibrations from the screams right throughout the craft.

The Orlando went dark then, and cold. The ant pyramid collapsed, and the tangled mass of bodies froze, waiting, as they drifted in space.