Stargate Universe 〈Authentic ✰〉

And somewhere, at the edge of everything, a hungry thing with seven arms and no eyes opened its mouth and began to read.

Dr. Mira Vance had spent twenty years listening to the silence of deep space. As the chief astrophysicist aboard the George Hammond , she had catalogued pulsars, mapped dark matter filaments, and once, memorably, argued for fifteen hours about the spin-state of a quasar’s accretion disk. She loved the silence. It was clean. It was honest. stargate universe

And the young one had tasted that knowledge. And it had made him hungry for the only thing that could fill the void left by a forgotten story. And somewhere, at the edge of everything, a

“Show me,” she said.

“I am the last librarian of the Ossuary,” he said. “And you are the first of your kind to arrive after the door closed. Which means the door is opening again. Which means he is waking up.” As the chief astrophysicist aboard the George Hammond