Descent

chapter 1

Regrets

Ryley Robinson sighed, this space expedition was not going the way he liked it. He laid down flat on his bed and closed his eyes. He could still remember the cheerful Alterra employee smiling as she told him about the wonders of uncharted space and the rewards that he would receive upon completion of the phase gate. Now he saw space travel as what it truly was boring, bleak and even worse they had told him his pay after he signed the contract. "I was a fool" he thought to himself "blinded by money and fame and now I'm stuck on this godforsaken spacecraft working for a company who only pay me ten credits an hour for repairing minor electrical malfunctions on an thousand passenger ship" He looked at his alarm clock, 5:07 am he sighed again his work started at 5:30. Suddenly he heard shouting from the next room over, something about contact hours. Then he got out of bed just in time because it folded against the wall and his room lit up. He walked over to the mirror and his prized collection of hair gels. "Hmm" he thought "what color today" he decided on a nice turquoise color and reached to pick it out when suddenly the announcement speaker in the hall blared "RYLEY ROBINSON PLEASE REPORT TO CTO YU'S OFFICE IMMEDIATELY!" Ryley groaned and dragged himself out into the hallway.