The figure turned and waved, and for a moment, the sterile white of the moonbase felt as cozy and filled with hope as a small house in the Ruins. The Commander didn't reach for the emergency override. Instead, he simply listened as the music played on, a strange digital bridge between a subterranean fantasy and the final frontier.
"The monsters under the surface," the TTS voice buzzed, "they are just code and moonlight now." Underbase: Fallen Down
Suddenly, the silence was broken by a soft, melodic hum—the opening notes of a song that sounded far too warm for the cold vacuum of space. It was Fallen Down, a tune from a world John had left behind on Earth. The figure turned and waved, and for a
"Aeiou?" a robotic, synthesized voice crackled through his headset. "The monsters under the surface," the TTS voice
"John Madden," the voice continued in its flat, monotone drone. "I have fallen down. Not into a hole in a mountain, but into the deep quiet of this crater."