Excerpt from N21 Part 2 Chapt 6 which directly precedes this.
When we last saw our protagonist:
Through the corridors, I could hear screams and panicked voices. A light went red. Thunk! Another light went yellow, while two more went red. Thunk! Thunk! I glanced at, then couldn't look away from the screens showing the bays. The first one, our home, seemed to be crumbling away as it slowly pirouetted, the distance between us growing.
I stared, and everything seemed to be happening at the end of a dark tunnel. The next thing I knew, I was waking up on the floor with Carla beside me, making sure I was alright
When we last saw Fredrik Freeman:
"Perfect," Paula told her
daughter as she saw the course come alive on the screen. It took her
a moment to order it, however. While it ended with them intersecting,
this would be dangerous. The course was theoretically possible, but
it was closer than any sane person would want to get to a star. Hell
with it, she thought. "Do it."
Rhoda committed them by pressing a
button, and the engines fired. The ship slowed allowing their fall
around the star to become stronger. A moment later, the thrusters
realigned them, and the engines fired again, making them accelerate
their fall while at the same time, angling them to where they would
miss the surface and just barely skim the edge of the sun's
atmosphere.
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