Echoes in The Void (The Aurora Run Book 2)
About
The Pattern That Shouldn’t Exist
The signal was no longer stable.
That was the first thing Lucas Mercer understood when he woke.
Not from a console.
Not from an alarm.
But from the feeling.
He was already in the corridor before he realised he had left his quarters.
Barefoot.
Still half-dressed.
Moving with a certainty he didn’t fully understand.
The ship hummed around him — steady, unchanged — but something beneath it felt different.
Like a second rhythm layered under the first.
Not mechanical.
Not human.
“Mercer?”
He didn’t stop.
Dr Elara Vance stepped out from the junction ahead of him, already watching him with concern.
“You alright?”
Mercer blinked.
The corridor snapped back into focus.
“Yes,” he said automatically.
Then paused.
“No.”
Vance studied him carefully.
“What is it?”
He hesitated.
Trying to find the right words.
“It’s changed.”
She didn’t ask what.
She already knew.
“The signal?”
He nodded.
“Yes.”
They moved quickly toward the cockpit.
By the time they arrived, Mara was already at the controls, leaning forward with a tight expression.
Nathan Hale stood beside her.
Arms folded.
Watching.
Waiting.
“It’s happening again,” Mara said without turning.
Hale glanced back.
“You felt it too?”
Mercer stopped.
“You mean—”
“Yes,” Hale said.
“Not just you.”
Vance stepped forward.
“Show me.”