Everything seemed to be going right for Camille. She'd just graduated last week and with pretty good grades, the party afterwards had been smashing and now she was on board of a suborbital flight towards the space elevator. From there she'd hop on a commercial flight off to see the stars. The job she had signed up for wasn't the best paying job in the universe and it probably wouldn't offer the best conditions most of the time. But the Bismarck was her ticket to the universe.<br/><br/>Then, the world exploded. Or at least it felt like it. All Camille saw was a bright flash followed by a blinding pain as something hit her head.<br/><br/>The suborbital was in the last phase of its descent over the city. When the wave hit it spun out of control, clipped a skyscraper on its way down, splashed through an ornamental lake before burying itself in the pavement. Its engines continued to run liquifying the ground around the shuttle before its fuel finally ran out.<br/><br/>Several hours later Camille woke up with the mother of all headaches. No scratch that, she was aching all over. She opened her eyes and looked around. It was still the inside of the suborbital craft though it looked like it had been through hell, was that blood? Camille blinked with her eyes trying to focus through the haze of pain.<br/>No it wasn't blood... It was brown not red...<br/>The pain began to dull, or was she just getting used to it? Well at least she could see more clearly now. What was that attached to her?<br/><br/>Camille opened her eyes wide and screamed.