Walking to Aldebaran

I'M LOST. I'M SCARED. AND THERE'S SOMETHING HORRIBLE IN HERE.



My name is Gary Rendell. I'm an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, 'astronaut, please!' I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut. I got lucky; when a probe exploring the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw.



I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived.



Now I'm lost, and alone, and scared, and there's something horrible in here.



Lucky me.



Lucky, lucky, lucky.