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Full-page splash, wide, camera at chest height from the far end of the room. Across the room, floor to ceiling, a slow rotating projection of Mars hangs in the air with green creeping across it in bands. TEO stands in front of it, sleeves rolled, one hand up inside the projection. Level with his shoulder, on the left of the frame, floats the glass sphere, unsupported, with something black and impossible suspended at its centre. Through the window, the towers venting into a butterscotch sky.

Wide, camera at eye level beside the projection. TEO's hand sweeps through the projection and a band of green across the northern cap thickens and holds.

Extreme close-up insert, straight on: the glass sphere floating at eye level, absolutely motionless, the lattice inside it receding further back than it could contain.

Medium, camera behind TEO's shoulder looking at the projection. It redraws itself: the green retreats, reorganises, and settles somewhere else entirely. TEO's hand still raised where the planet was.

Wide, camera low, looking up past the window. TEO turns from the projection to the sphere at his shoulder, on the left of the frame. The room, the man, the button hanging in the air, and through the window the towers still venting into a sky that is the wrong colour.

Wide, camera at eye level. Every surface in the lab drops its warm amber and goes a flat cold white at once. The projection of Mars collapses to nothing. TEO's hand is still raised where the planet was.

Extreme close-up insert, camera just below TEO's face, looking up: his face lit from below by a cold white glow reflected in his eyes; no glyphs, no writing, only light.

Medium, three-quarter from the front. He has turned to the sphere at his shoulder on the left of the frame. His hands are down, his mouth flat.

Wide, camera at eye level, the sphere between camera and TEO. The sphere hanging in the cold white light, and the man looking at it with his arms folded and his weight back on his heels.

Wide, camera at console height. Another message on the console, and this one has a face: MIRA, framed small in the glass, speaking from somewhere with a low ceiling and harness straps behind her. TEO's shoulder in the foreground.

Extreme close-up insert, camera level with the hand: TEO's open hand held out beside the sphere, fingers spread, not touching it — there is no need to carry it.

Medium, camera tracking beside him. He walks. The sphere comes with him at his shoulder, on the left of the frame, keeping pace, a hand's width from him and touching nothing.

Wide, high angle from the rock face looking down at the pad. TEO crossing it towards the ship, small against the landscape, the sphere pacing him.

Wide exterior, camera trailing the ship from behind and slightly above. Their ship in deep space, small against a black star-field, warm amber light buried along its flanks, drives glowing soft blue. Far ahead of it, small, a grey asteroid with a tiny cluster of lights on one face.

Wide, camera behind the seats at head height. The bridge: TEO at the console with one boot up, the glass sphere hanging in the air above the desk beside his right hand. Through the window, deep clean space and one grey speck ahead.

Wide, camera at seat height, three-quarter from the front. The bridge, warm and domestic: MIRA lifting a sleeping ENDER out of the co-pilot seat, the child boneless with sleep in soft pale pyjamas printed with small stars, one arm hanging. Tucked under her chin is the plush cat. Behind them, out of focus, a man's shoulder and the back of the pilot seat.

Extreme close-up insert, straight on: the plush cat's stitched face against the sleeping child's chin, two black buttons sewn on with white thread.

Medium, camera low in the passage looking back towards the bridge hatch. MIRA carrying the sleeping ENDER away from it down the long immaculate white corridor — and the glass sphere drifting after them, unhurried, at her shoulder.

Wide, camera at the back of the bridge looking past TEO at the window. Only TEO in the bridge now, settling back in his seat. Beyond the window the grey asteroid, larger, a cluster of small lights on it.

Wide, camera at bunk height from the foot of the bunk. A child's sleeping cabin. MIRA lowers ENDER onto the bunk, one hand behind her head. The sphere hangs near the ceiling by the door, on the right of the frame, out of the way.

Wide, camera low at the far end of the bunk, looking along it. MIRA sitting on the edge of the bunk with one hand flat on the child's chest, singing. The plush cat is tucked in under ENDER's chin. Warm under-light, everything quiet. The sphere hangs above them near the door, motionless.

Close, camera at pillow level looking along it. ENDER asleep in profile, the plush cat under her chin with its stitched grin towards camera, and MIRA's hand just lifting off the blanket at the edge of frame.

Medium, camera low behind MIRA's shoulder looking up. She looks up at the sphere hanging by the ceiling. It has not moved. Her arms are folded.

Extreme close-up macro, straight on: a small blade lifting the white crossed thread of the plush cat's left button eye, unpicking it, the button coming free in MIRA's fingers.

Extreme close-up macro, straight on: the button-sized glass sphere pressed into the empty left eye socket of the plush cat, and the black button laid back over it.

Wide, camera at bunk height, three-quarter from the front. MIRA sewing the button back with white thread, small careful stitches, the plush cat in her lap. ENDER asleep beside her hand and entirely unaware. The toy looks exactly as it did.

Wide, camera at eye level from the doorway, hard cut. MIRA already on her feet in the dim gold of the emergency light, one hand on the doorframe, turned back towards the bunk.

Extreme close-up insert, straight on: only MIRA's hand slamming flat on a wall control, the panel under it flaring amber.

Medium, camera low, looking up at the wall. The wall section folds back and the recess lights. Two adult suits stand in it. No people.

Wide, camera at bunk height. ENDER sits up in the bunk, hair everywhere, holding the plush cat against her chest with both arms, watching her mother pull the first suit off its mount. The child's shoulders are loose. MIRA's are not.

Medium, camera at chest height, tight on MIRA. She seals her own suit in three fast movements, already turning back towards the bunk before the last one is closed. The recess is out of frame.

Medium, camera low, looking up. MIRA in her suit lifts ENDER bodily into the second suit, its chest open. It is an adult suit and the child disappears into it: her face small in an opening built for a face twice the size.

Close, camera at the child's chest height. MIRA's gauntlet pushes the plush cat in after her, against the child's chest, and jams it there with the flat of her hand.

Wide, camera at the child's eye level between them. Mother and daughter face to face, ENDER inside the open helmet ring of the suit, MIRA in her own suit with her gauntlets on either side of the opening. Behind them the doorway pulses amber.

Close, camera straight on at the child's face. The visor comes down over ENDER's face: a smooth graphite-and-glass shell closing, her eyes visible through it, MIRA's gauntlets still on the rim.

Medium, camera low beside the seat. MIRA, in her sealed white pressure suit, strapping the whole suit with ENDER in it into the acceleration seat: heavy webbing pulled across the chest plate and cinched, the child inside it small and rigid.

Extreme close-up insert, straight on: the suit's chest display waking from inside, a column of cool cyan readouts against white armour.

Wide, the child's point of view through the visor, the visor's edge soft at the frame. MIRA in her sealed white pressure suit already at the door, one hand on the frame, looking back. The doorway pulses amber behind her.

Wide, camera at the child's eye level, straight on at the closed door. The cabin door closes; the amber in the doorway is cut off. Near-black, except the cyan glow of the suit display on ENDER's chin inside the visor, on the left of the frame.

Wide, camera low and tilted hard with the deck. The strapped suit with ENDER in it slams against the seat mounts as the whole room is thrown sideways.

Wide, camera at deck level from the doorway. Stillness. The cabin is intact and completely wrong: the deck off level, everything that was in the hatches now on the floor, dust settling through the low red emergency light. An amber beacon in the doorway flashes slowly. The suit sits strapped in the seat, tipped with the room, the visor dark.

Extreme close-up, camera low and tight against the visor glass, angled up. ENDER's face behind it, eyes shut, a thread of blood at the lip, filling the left two-thirds of the frame. Wedged against her cheek on the right, the plush cat's head, its left button eye close enough to count the white crossed stitches — and behind that button, a single hard point of cyan light burning.

Extreme close-up, straight on: the suit's chest display burning hard amber edge to edge, every readout rewritten and none of them the cyan they were.

Close, camera at shoulder height. Two thin arms fold out of the suit's own forearm and go into the shoulder seal: the suit's medical system, working on its wearer, ENDER's face still and shut inside the visor above.

Extreme close-up, straight on at the chest display: an amber wire-frame of a small body, and a line of light running down the spine that stops halfway.

Close, camera tight on the visor, straight on. ENDER's face going slack as the suit puts her under.

Wide, camera at deck level, low angle. The suit releases the harness — and does not stand. Small thruster ports open along its back, hips and calves and fire pale blue-white, blowing the settled dust off the deck in a ring, and the whole suit lifts a hand's width off the seat and hangs there, ENDER limp inside it.

Wide, camera low at the cabin hatch, looking along the corridor. The suit glides out of the cabin a hand's width off the deck, moving towards the right of the frame down the passage, thruster ports open and ticking pale blue, boots hanging and touching nothing, passing over the fallen panel and the cases.

Wide, camera in the corridor at chest height, looking forward. The shut bulkhead door to the bridge fills the right-hand end of the frame: crooked in a frame that is no longer square, the wall beside it buckled in a long shallow fold. Red light, one amber beacon above it. The suit hangs in front of it and does not move.

Close, camera at the door frame's height, straight on: the gap where the deformed frame no longer meets, a smear of frost along that gap, the suit's two lamps making small circles on the metal. Nothing moves.

Extreme close-up insert, straight on: a schematic of the ship on the suit's chest display, most of it dark, four small compartments still outlined in green.

Medium, camera in the corridor looking through an open hatch into the hold, the suit's two lamps sweeping across the racks.

Extreme close-up insert, straight on: one cyan bar on the suit's chest display, three-quarters full, the readouts around it dimmed.

Wide, camera low on the deck, looking along the corridor. The suit driving fast towards the left of the frame on its open thrusters, away from the bridge door now receding small and red behind it, tilted forward like something being towed, skimming over the fallen panels and scattered cases and throwing dust up behind it in a long trail, ENDER limp inside it, both lamps forward. At the far end of the corridor: a closed door, intact and clean, dark.

Full-page splash, silent, camera on the deck, extreme low angle, looking up the length of the corridor. The suit hangs in front of the far door: a single small armoured figure with ENDER inside it, a hairline of living green light around the door's frame lighting the armour from the front. From behind, pulsing amber. Everything else is red, dim and scattered.

Wide, camera at the door's threshold, low, looking in. The door opens and the greenhouse is alive: a long white cylindrical bay full of growing racks, water lines, warm pink-white grow-light, leaves moving in a circulating breeze. Humid, green and working.

Medium, camera tracking beside the suit at chest height as it glides between the racks, leaves brushing the white armour, the far end of the bay and a second door ahead. Inside the visor, on the left of the frame, ENDER's eyes are open.

The child's point of view through the visor, the visor's edge soft at the frame: green racks and pink-white lamps sliding past, water beading on a line, leaves close enough to touch. No hand, no shoulder, no part of her in frame.

Close, camera straight on at the visor. ENDER's face behind the glass, awake, eyes wide, looking for someone.

Wide, camera at rack height. The suit halted among the green, hanging a hand's width off the deck, ENDER inside it with only her face moving.

Wide, camera low at the greenhouse's far door, looking back through the racks. The suit driving towards camera and past, out of the green into the red corridor beyond, the grow-lights behind it, ENDER's face small in the visor.

Wide, camera in the corridor at chest height. A short red-lit run of corridor and at its end a hatch already open, cool white light inside it. The suit gliding towards it.

Wide establishing, camera low by the hatch. A medical bay: the same glossy white, a single articulated table, a ring of dormant instruments, everything clean and cold and running on emergency power. The suit gliding in through the hatch with ENDER inside it.

Medium, camera at table height. The suit kneeling on one knee at the table with its chest split wide open, both gauntlets under ENDER's shoulders, laying her on the white surface. She is small, filthy and awake.

Extreme close-up insert, straight on: the scanner ring closing over her and lighting.

Wide, camera at table height looking up at the projection. The image it produces, thrown large above the table: a child's spine, and one vertebra through which the bright line of the cord simply stops.

Close, camera at table level. ENDER's face on the table, turned sideways, looking up at the floating scan.

Low angle, camera on the table looking straight up. The dormant instrument arms above her waking one by one, cyan lights coming on along them.

Close, camera at table level. A suit gauntlet setting the plush cat on the table beside ENDER's head, where she can see him.

Wide, camera low across the table. The suit standing at the table with its gauntlets open at the table's edge, the instruments live and angled down over ENDER.

Wide, camera at eye level. The bay's own system throws up a warning across every surface at once, a wall of red. Every arm in the room stops mid-movement.

Extreme close-up, straight on: one instrument arm's joint, lit red, beginning to turn again.

Close, camera at table level. The plush cat beside her head, its left button eye lit cyan, the whole room red around it.

Close, camera at table level, held. ENDER's face, awake, and the instrument arms coming down towards her neck. She does not look away.

Close, high angle over the instruments. The operation, drawn as light and precision rather than gore: the nape of a small neck, a field of sterile blue, instruments working small and exact, a single chip the size of a grain held in a clamp.

Extreme close-up macro, straight on: the chip going in against the broken vertebra, and around it a fine bloom of radio light as it finds both ends of the severed nerve.

Medium, camera flat at table level. ENDER's chest lifted at the top of a breath under the sterile drape, the drape's edge caught mid-lift, and on the wall glass behind her one cyan waveform jumping where it had been a flat line.

Wide, silent, camera at eye level from the table. The empty suit standing in the corner of the medical bay, chest closed, the helmet on its mount above the shoulders, its lamps dimmed to standby.

Wide, silent, high angle over the table. ENDER on the table under the drape, breathing, eyes open, the plush cat beside her head. Nothing else in the room moves.

Close, camera at table level. ENDER's eyes go sideways to the plush cat beside her head.

Extreme macro, straight on, filling the frame: the plush cat's left button eye, the white thread crossed through its four holes standing proud of the felt, and a steady cyan point alight directly behind the button.

Medium, camera at table level, straight on. The plush cat on the table, small and soft and absurd against all that white medical machinery, the cyan point alive behind its left button eye, ENDER's face beside it in profile, her eyes open and fixed on the toy.

Close, camera low and level with the table top. ENDER's small hand held upright above the white surface, wrist turned outward, fingers open and perfectly still, her face behind it out of focus and watching it.

Full-page splash, silent, camera low among the racks, looking up. ENDER carried in the arms of the empty suit, the way her mother carried her: white armour around her, the greenhouse growing under warm lamps, and the only soft thing in the frame the plush cat held against her chest under the suit's gauntlet. Her eyes are open. Above the racks, the greenhouse's own lamps, and past them the dark.

Full-page, camera on the greenhouse deck, low angle, looking up. Warm grow-lights. ENDER standing upright, held under the arms from behind by the suit's two white gauntlets, her bare feet flat on the deck and her knees not quite straight, still in the pale star-printed pyjamas. At her eye level on the edge of a rack, propped facing her, the plush cat with its left button eye lit cyan. Leaves and water lines around them; the rest of the ship dark beyond.