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"If we jump now, we might tear the hull," Elias warned. "If we wait ten minutes for a full charge, the gate will be gone. We'll be ghosts in this sector."

"We are standing before a window of opportunity," Kaelen said, her voice tight. She didn't look at Elias; she was too busy recalibrating the thrusters. "But windows don't just close. They shatter if you wait too long." my_naxodimsya_pered_oknom_vozmoznostei_oni_pere...

Should we explore what happens to the now that they've returned to an Earth they haven't seen in years ? "If we jump now, we might tear the hull," Elias warned

She didn't wait for his hand on the lever. She slammed hers down. She didn't look at Elias; she was too

Elias exhaled, his hands shaking. He looked back at the space behind them. The nebula was gone. The window had vanished as if it had never existed. "We made it," he whispered.

Elias looked at the swirling violets and deep magentas of the nebula. For three years, they had studied the anomaly, waiting for the precise moment when the gravitational tides would part. That moment was now. But the ship’s core was only at 60% capacity.

When the light faded, the hum of the clock was gone. Silence flooded the bridge. Outside, the familiar blue marble of Earth hung in the dark, serene and indifferent.