STARLIGHT PARASITE . Content Warning.
They called it The Eye of Nysa—a rogue star caught drifting between galaxies, flickering faintly like a beacon no one meant to follow. The crew of the long-range explorer Odyssia didn’t go looking for it. The Eye found them.
It started with light.
A pale shimmer that leaked into the observation deck’s viewports—an impossible glow with no known source, pulsing like a heartbeat. Dr. Vanya Roth, xenobiologist, was the first to see it. She stared at it for five minutes, unmoving, before someone shook her.
“Are you okay?” asked Lieutenant Bray.
She turned slowly, smile thin. “It’s not a star.”