Ashlight Hunger

Something crystalline is growing in the deepest mineshafts of Outpost Varen, and it pulses brighter every time the dying star outside throws off another flare. Corporate auditor Maren Solis came to balance the colony's failing books—not to face a parasitic organism that feeds on radiance itself. Now, with each eruption drawing the entity closer to full bloom and evacuation routes failing one by one, Maren must rally a skeleton crew against a threat that thrives on the very light keeping them alive.