Asterion

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They found him drifting beyond Saturn’s bones, suspended in ancient stasis, a man-shaped void wrapped in dying stars. Asterion perished centuries ago aboard the Vanta Helix, a casualty of a cosmic experiment that was never meant to succeed. But something out there something older stitched him back together with gravitational threads and dead light. His body returned, but not his heartbeat. He is the orbiting revenant, a patchwork of entropy and longing, devouring frequencies and trailing the scent of supernovae. They say if you listen close, you’ll hear him humming lullabies into the black. They say he’s mourning something. They say it might be you.