Hello?


    In a perfectly dark room, human eyes will see electrical flashes created by their own cells.


    Help.


    There was no light, so they had no eyes.


    Hello.


    In a perfectly soundless room, human ears begin to ring.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.


    Help.


    There was no ringing, so they had no ears.


    Hello


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    Mirror Station 07396 ran a full diagnostic check.


    The station had 495 humans, 36 cats, 9 dogs, and 57 fish aboard. As well as 21,965 individual plants to help with oxygen production. Until the light packet was found, none of them could leave.


    Before setting up interplanetary mirror stations, governments and companies had spent decades making sure nothing could go wrong. If a car breaks down on a street, this is an inconvenience. If a boat sinks at sea, there’s a chance of rescue. If an airplane falls from the sky, this is tragic but it does not affect the next plane to fly.


    But if a mirror broke, billions of people would be cut off. Hundreds, thousands of people could die. More than that, if one broke that meant more could follow. Faith in the mirrors would shatter like, well, a mirror.


    Yes, a ship vanishing was incredibly improbable. A near-impossible glitch in one of millions of processes with redundancies upon redundancies to ensure the safety of everyone involved.


    And yet it had happened.


    And no one knew how.