[Intro — Male Lead A: urgent, procedural; clipped but readable] Move! Hatch! Get in— seal it. GO! [Verse 1 — Male Lead A: controlled adrenaline] You hit the wall on launch, shoulder first. You’re bleeding. [Verse 1 — Female Lead B: defensive, sharp] Barely. Great, hold this. Power cell’s loose— I can reach it… got it. [Verse 1 — Male Lead A: first respect surfacing] Nice. [Verse 1 — Female Lead B: surprised, recovering] Was that a compliment? Navigation’s alive. Mostly. [Verse 1 — Male Lead A: dry] Don’t get used to it. And there’s that word again. [Pre-Chorus 1 — Female Lead B: adrenaline dropping into shock] Then the glass cleared… nothing where the station was. [Pre-Chorus 1 — Male Lead A: quieter, stunned] You stopped talking. [Pre-Chorus 1 — Female Lead B] So did you… [Chorus 1 — Male Lead A: restrained melodic opening] Guess it’s just us now, drifting where the station used to be. [Chorus 1 — Female Lead B: unsettled] Guess it’s just us now, one good beacon, one bad battery. Calling into nowhere, waiting for a sound. [Chorus 1 — Both: subdued] Guess it’s just us now. [Verse 2 — Female Lead B: tension easing into teasing] Still drink this? You always leave it by the panel. [Verse 2 — Male Lead A: dry] You’re holding my coffee. [Verse 2 — Female Lead B] It was getting cold. You used to say it smelled terrible. [Verse 2 — Male Lead A] It does. You still took it. [Verse 2 — Female Lead B: playful] Once. [Verse 2 — Male Lead A: amused] More than once. [Verse 2 — Female Lead B: caught] You remember that? [Verse 2 — Male Lead A: revealing more than intended] Apparently. You were on Nine a lot back then. [Verse 2 — Female Lead B] Was I? [Verse 2 — Male Lead A] More than you needed to be. [Verse 2 — Female Lead B: caught, honesty slipping through] Maybe I liked the company. [Pre-Chorus 2 — Male Lead A: realization arriving] Why didn’t you ever say that? [Pre-Chorus 2 — Female Lead B: quiet, deliberate] Your knee’s on mine. [Pre-Chorus 2 — Male Lead A] There isn’t room. [Pre-Chorus 2 — Female Lead B] There wasn’t room before either. [Chorus 2 — Female Lead B: warmer, attraction now mutual] Guess it’s just us now, floating past the pieces of our home. You want me to move? [Chorus 2 — Male Lead A: control loosening] No. Guess it’s just us now, and you still haven’t moved your knee. [Chorus 2 — Female Lead B: softer] Beacon’s still calling. [Chorus 2 — Male Lead A: attachment becoming reliance] Keep talking anyway. [Chorus 2 — Both: warmer] Guess it’s just us now. [Post-Chorus — Female Lead B: teasing covering concern] You hate small talk. So why keep asking questions? [Post-Chorus — Male Lead A: honesty slipping through] Usually I do. But when you stop talking, I start hearing the hull. [Post-Chorus — Female Lead B: concern replaces teasing] Hey. Look at me. [Post-Chorus — Male Lead A: softer] I am. [Bridge — rapid alternating interruption] [Male Lead A] If we don’t make it back— [Female Lead B] Don’t. [Male Lead A] No, listen— [Female Lead B] I am listening. [Male Lead A] I should’ve said this before— [Female Lead B] Then say it. [Male Lead A] I— [Radio Transmission — separate neutral emergency-comms voice; narrow-band filtered] (kkshh) Escape pod seven. Signal acquired. Rescue inbound. (krrt) [Female Lead B — established warm alto returns; relief colliding with disappointment] …worst timing in the universe. [Male Lead A — established lower voice returns] You were gonna say something too. [Female Lead B] Maybe. [Male Lead A] That means yes. [Female Lead B: warmth returning] It absolutely does not. [Final Chorus — Male Lead A: relief, control finally open] Guess it’s just us now for another minute, maybe two. Rescue lights are coming, getting brighter through the glass. [Final Chorus — Female Lead B: attachment stated plainly] Guess it’s just us now… and I don’t want that hatch open yet. Funny— five minutes ago I was kicking that hatch. [Final Chorus — Male Lead A: quiet acceptance] Then don’t move. [Final Chorus — Female Lead B] I wasn’t planning to. [Final Chorus — Both: full melodic payoff] Guess it’s just us now. Guess it’s just us now. [Outro — Male Lead A: intimate] Your hand’s still in mine. [Outro — Female Lead B] You noticed. [Outro — Male Lead A] Hard not to. [Outro — Female Lead B: choosing closeness] Don’t let go yet. [Outro — Male Lead A] Wasn’t planning to.
