Darkness

Observation log, day... day... I don't even know any more. I've lost track of the days. But it's been a long time. Feels like years, probably been a month, maybe something in between.

There are only three of us left. Attempts to contact other stations have all failed. I think we might be alone. It's me, Twilight, and her sole remaining daughter, Gloria. We've been holed up in here in hiding from the darkness outside. We thought maybe it would go away eventually, or that help would arrive, or... something. I honestly am not sure what exactly we thought would happen.

I'm not sure why Dark Matter hasn't taken us yet. Maybe it's been busying itself elsewhere. Maybe it's recuperating from the fight it had with the Kobbers. Our greatest failure. We threw everything we had at it over the course of several days, desperately trying to finish it off, but it was too late. We were fighting something bigger than even the Kobbers, so vast we could barely comprehend it. For every Dark Matter we beat back, more came. It's blanketed the entire planet by now, it had endless resources to throw at us. The Kobbers had achieved many victories in their short reign, but they weren't prepared for this scale of attack. Kobbers fought battles. We weren't ready for an all-out war.

Dark Matter had played smart. It had steadily grown, targeting less populated areas first to quickly overwhelm local resistance and grow larger off of easy meals. It saved the Kobbers for last, and we noticed it much too late. We faced it several times, and at first we seemed to be winning, but the endless reinforcements proved too much, and as Dark Matter noticed we were tiring, it grew more eager to expend resources to defeat us. The breaks it took grew shorter, and our forces thinned gradually as more and more Kobbers were lost to the darkness over the years.

A last stand had been made. Some of the Kobbers made a sacrifice, going down fighting so that the others could flee into space and escape, hopefully to regroup on another planet with reinforcements. In the chaos, Twilight, Gloria, and I ended up unable to reach our rocket in time, and Dark Matter destroyed it. Twilight led us here to her safehouse, and we barricaded ourselves in against the alien menace. Twilight had a plan. She's a brilliant scientist and inventor, and she was close to a breakthrough in "sifter" technology, a handheld device that could warp between dimensions. She'd been working with other Kobber scientists to perfect the invention, but work had slowed as they were picked off by Dark Matter or forced to flee. Now she's trying to finish the work alone. Gloria and I don't know anything about dimensional travel, so we're not much help.

The sifter is nearly complete. Thank goodness, because we don't have much time left. Even if Dark Matter leaves us alone, we only have enough food and water left for about another three weeks before we have no choice but to abandon the shelter. Time's running out, and I can tell Twilight is feeling the strain. Gloria's doing her best to keep us sane, reading aloud to us from her large collection of books. Bless her.

I chose to write today because I've realized I may not get another chance. Instead of always putting it off until we were safe, I wanted to record this just in case something goes wrong. I don't want to be a pessimist, but I'd like to be realistic about our chances with what's outside. It's scary, but

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