Describe Your Surroundings - J.F. Hire

"The only way that I can guarantee getting you out of there is if you can tell me exactly- and I mean EXACTLY what you see around you..."

"Uhh, I..."

"Take it slow, just start with how bright it is, what's underneath you?" The officer on the other end said while his partner tried to scramble for an unencryptic way to track to received call.

"It's dim, and I'm on glass." Ston said.

"Okay, good. Like, broken glass?" The officer asked.

"No, like, I'm on a window. I can see Andromeda." 

The officer took note, nodding. "Okay, go on."

"And there's- I can see the ISS! Like, I can see that it's right over the South pole, It's halfway through its daily rotation." Ston shifted, adjusting the awkward bindings around his arms. 

"Good, very good. Now, can you tell me more about the vessel you're on? Is it a freight? A personal supply truck?" 

Ston tried to see what was nearby, kicking a few boxes that had slid toward him toward the trek. "It's full of orange crates, like the kind you see fruit shipped in?" 

The officer chuckled. "You're doing really well! We've got you narrowed down to less than 25% possible vessels."

"There's, something else, something weird. I think it's, hold on." Ston shuffled closer to another window, his embedded headset making muffled shifting noises. "It's... the Soviet flag."

There was dead air from the part of the officers, who all seemed to stop what they were doing. 

"Is that so... I'll okay, good job, just hang tight. Stay calm and I'll let you know what the plan is, just, stay calm."

The officer muted the call, and sat back on his desk, looking at his colleagues. "So... We all know that the soviets haven't been allowed in space for what, two centuries? So, let's think, there's no reason why..." 

"There is one reason." A new guy chimed, adding, as if everyone hadn't been thinking it. 

"Well, you know. That hole that opened up weeks ago. It's been sucking things out for days now. I just." 

"We know... It's in the only thing. Those quack scientists were right... Seems like we don't have a black hole, but a worm hole."

The silence punctuated the lack of celebration. No black hole was a good thing, right? 

"Sucks that it's full of communists."