Novels by Zaya Nebula

POV: DannyThe lab smelled like blood and chemicals.Raj was hunched over the navigation panels, his hands trembling as he soldered exposed wires. The wound on his back already showed bluish veins, but he kept working.“Five… five more minutes,” he coughed, wiping the sweat from his forehead with a soot-stained arm. “I can restore the temperature controls.”Alyssa watched from afar, arms crossed so tightly her fingers dug into her skin.“And then what? We’ll slowly cook instead of freeze?”“It’s bad enough already, okay? Maybe save the sarcasm for later,” Raj replied without looking up.“Yes, like at the time of our death,” she answered, ignoring his advice completely.I leaned against the bench, trying to ignore the throbbing pain in my wrist.Piotr’s watch still read 4:23, as always.. . .Lena entered the room carrying a radiation meter. Her movements were slow, calculated, as if each step hurt.When she passed by me, I saw what she was trying to hide: the blue creeping up her neck

Sure! Here's your scene translated into English, from **Danny’s POV**:POV: DannyTotal darkness lasted only ten seconds before the emergency lights flickered on, bathing the module in blood-red light.Jun was gone, leaving behind only traces of glowing blue crystals on the floor—footprints leading toward the main hallway."Raj, fix those comms," I ordered, wiping the blue blood running from my nose onto my sleeve. "Alyssa, check the oxygen tanks. Lena—"She was already walking away."I'm going after Jun."“Wait.” I coughed. “Lena—”But she was already gone.Raj worked frantically at the comm panel, his fingers trembling over the exposed circuits.“He sabotaged everything methodically,” Raj muttered, removing a charred panel. “But he left openings... almost like he *wanted* us to fix it.”Alyssa coughed beside me, her infected arm now wrapped in makeshift bandages. Blue splotches had already started to appear beneath her skin.“Why the hell would he do that?”Raj inserted a new chip w

POV: DannyThe main corridor pulsed with an eerie bluish light, illuminated by Jun’s transforming body.His footsteps echoed with a strangely metallic ring, as if his feet had already begun to solidify. When he turned to us, the sight made my stomach churn.His eyes were no longer eyes, but two perfect crystals, as deep as the vacuum of space.“You still don’t get it, do you?” Jun raised his hands, where his fingers had fused into sharp crystalline structures. “We are witnessing the birth of a new era!”Pale and frozen in place, none of us could even react as our scientist began pacing in circles, his movements disturbingly fluid for someone half-petrified. Every word was broken by nervous laughter.“For decades, humanity has crawled through petty conflicts! Wars for oil, land, foolish ideologies!” His chest heaved violently. “But Helium-3... Helium-3 changes everything!”He smashed a control panel with a punch, shards of metal failing to harm his crystallized hand.“Imagine a world w

POV: DannyThe alarm was still blaring when Lena grabbed my arm hard enough to leave marks.“We need to isolate him. Now.”Jun just smiled, his blue teeth glowing in the dim light. Alyssa backed away until she hit the opposite wall, while Raj started hyperventilating.“Lena, with me,” I ordered, moving toward Jun. “Raj, disable that alarm. Alyssa, check the life support systems.”“Are you insane?” Alyssa screamed. “We need to get out of here! Abort the mission!”Lena was already at my side, her body tense like a coiled spring.“We contain him first. Then we decide.”Jun laughed, a sound that echoed like shattering glass.“Decide what? Who dies first?”Before we could react, he turned and bolted down the main corridor, his body moving in a strangely uncoordinated way, as if it wasn’t entirely under his control.. . .The control room was in chaos.Raj was typing furiously while Lena and I tried to track Jun’s movements through the security cameras.“Lock down Section C,” Lena ordered,

POV: DannyThe main laboratory of the lunar module was colder than usual. Or maybe it was just the tremor that hadn't stopped running through my bones since I woke up.Lena had insisted that I stay in quarantine for another 24 hours, but the clock on my wrist kept vibrating - 4:23, 4:23, 4:23 - like an anxious heartbeat against my skin.Raj was typing frantically on his terminal when I entered, his fingers creating an irregular rhythm that mixed with the distorted music only I (and now Jun) seemed to hear."Commander!" He stood up so quickly he knocked over his chair. "You should be—""Where are the samples?" I cut him off, ignoring the throbbing pain behind my eyes.Raj exchanged a glance with Alyssa, who was watching from her position near the air filters. Her arms were crossed, and her face, usually so expressive, was void of any emotion."In containment chamber B," Raj replied, lowering his voice. "But you need to see this first."He spun his datapad in my direction. The images sh

POV: DannyThe pain came before consciousness. A throbbing stab in my temples that made me groan even before opening my eyes. The metallic taste of blood filled my mouth, mixing with the acidic taste of dried vomit at the corner of my lips."Finally."Lena's voice came from somewhere to my right. Instinctively, I turned my head, which was also extremely painful. I tried to focus on her, but my vision was still filled with pulsating red spots."How long?" My voice came out weak and hoarse, causing Lena to frown."Eighteen hours, forty-three minutes." She leaned forward, her cold fingers touching my wrist. "You had three seizures. The team wanted to induce a coma, but I...""You stopped them."She didn’t respond, just pressed her fingers a little harder against my skin. Her touch was firm, professional, but there was something else there—a hesitation that had never been there before."You're not wearing PPE."Lena smiled, a small, slightly sarcastic gesture."Observant as always, Comma