Claire deliberately causes a hull breach, resulting in Max's death. She manages to get the upper hand when Reed appears and attacks Max, who is forced to shoot him. Realizing what she has done, Max seeks out Claire and the two have a final standoff. She and Kane manage to evade him by fleeing to their repair ship, which is still aboard the Aurora. This instead causes Reed to fully snap and attack Claire. With no easy path to escape, Claire decides to further amplify the device's abilities by removing the sound dampeners, expecting that this would allow them to sneak aboard Max's ship. Reed and Claire were to be left aboard Reed to make the destruction believable as Verux would be losing a valued employee and Claire, who would serve as scapegoat.Ĭlaire manages to escape the room with Reed and Claire. Max was sent to retrieve the device and then destroy the ship. The amplified device instead caused severe hallucinations and, it's implied, the limited ability to see ghosts. To accomplish this the crew member was given a vibration device intended to merely cause headaches and mild distress, however these effects were dramatically amplified by the new alloys used to build the ship. Twenty years prior Verux had paid one of the crew members to sabotage the maiden voyage so that the owning company would go bankrupt, allowing Verux to buy them out. To her horror, Claire learns the truth about the events aboard the Aurora. As she talks to him Max has one of his security teams lock her, Reed, and Kane inside the room. Once aboard, Claire discovers that Kane is still alive, as he had sequestered himself in a makeshift padded room that he claims dampens vibrations he says causes hallucinations. Max informs Claire that Verux is sending himself, Reed, and Claire to investigate the Aurora and retrieve the bodies. While narrating the events to the investigators it becomes clear that Claire can see ghosts, something she had always been in denial about but finally admits to herself is genuine. Reed is incredulous, as he is intent on forcing Claire to confess to murdering her crew out of greed. She had fractured her skull while trying to stop him, resulting in her retaining no memory beyond a vision of seeing Lourdes's ghost hovering over Claire and Lourdes's corpse. Claire further tells them that her crew had begun to experience these same effects, leading to Voller killing himself. Footage discovered from a reality show filmed aboard the Aurora showed that the deceased had experienced visual and auditory hallucinations, as well as paranoia. Once aboard the ship they discovered that the guests and crew had died in a variety of gruesome ways. While being interviewed by two Verux corporate investigators, Max and Reed, Claire details how her crew had found and investigated the Aurora, hoping to claim its lucrative salvage rights. Her last memories were of her and her crew discovering the Aurora, a luxury cruise spaceship that had gone missing twenty years previously, during its maiden voyage. A month prior she was discovered aboard an escape pod with a skull fracture and no memory of how she got aboard the pod. The novel follows Claire, a team leader who worked aboard a Verux repair ship servicing communication beacons in the outermost regions of explored space alongside her crewmates Voller, Kane, Lourdes, and Nysus. Print (hardback, paperback), ebook, audiobookĭead Silence is a 2022 science fiction horror novel by American author Stacey Kade, writing under the penname of S.A.
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