Quiet Colony

They call it the Quieting. Not dead. Not asleep. Just gone — present in body, unreachable in everything else, for years at a time.When Dr. Naomi Serra arrives at Calyx Station to run routine psychiatric evaluations, she expects paperwork, not patients like this. But the official diagnosis doesn't hold up, and the deeper she looks, the more the colony's calm explanations start to sound like somethi...