ember: a small piece of glowing coal in a dying fire

Six months.

This won't connect to the community, I know. It was one of the first things I tried, but here it's just a book. The pages never change, and nothing else ever shows up. It's completely blank, unless I write in it myself. I'm still keeping it, though. Maybe something will get through eventually; it's worth a try.

I've been stuck on a space station for a couple of weeks now, with no foreseeable way off. I've been told that I should wait and it'll send me back home in its own time; I've been told that we can find a way off ourselves but it'll take years; I've even been told that there's no way back and I should just get used to it.

I don't plan on doing any of those things.

I'm staying in an apartment near a quantum physics library, where I plan to research the best course of action to take. The first thing I plan to find out is why worldhopping doesn't work here, and whether that's a temporary or a permanent thing.

I don't care what other people say. I'm not going to just give up.