Day 41 — Food for 12 left. Day 63 — Four left. Day 71 — Two left. We’ve named the echo. Day 74 — One left. Broadcasting .64 power cycle. If you find this, tell my daughter the Little Pearl didn’t sink. It just… set sail differently.
Set 9 was the bridge. A single terminal flickered on residual charge. Vara cracked the log: LS Little Pearl -14 sets-.64
The Little Pearl wasn’t a ship, not anymore. She was a salvage claim, logged as LS Little Pearl -14 sets-.64 in the orbital registry: fourteen disjointed structure sets pulled from the wreck of a mid-bulk starliner, point-six-four of her original mass coefficient still readable. Day 41 — Food for 12 left