In The Clear

Arne was content with her career as a hydrogen rigger, harvesting fuel from Saturn's clouds for use across the solar system, until two prospectors offered her a job that kindled old desires. She used to be an angel, a guide through the lightless sky beneath Saturn's clouds, but abandoned that deadly wasteland years ago. Now she returns, taking flight again on cybernetic wings to guide a new prototype through the invisible gale of the liquid sky. She used to know Saturn's depths well, but returning ignites old scars, and there is something new and unnatural waiting in the burning air.

Things begin to go sideways when Arne hears a strange voice from out in the void. No one else hears it, and Saturn remains as lifeless and vacant as ever, so Arne forges ahead. She ignores its warnings and descends deeper toward the unknown, but the unknown itself is rising up to meet her. Paranoia and fear bloom in Arne's mind as the empty sky fills with long buried secrets, casting doubt on the true purpose of the expedition and on her own sanity. Threatened with creeping madness and blocked from escape by her employer's obsessive ambition, Arne will have no choice but to face the abyss she has spent years trying to forget.

When the wind comes for her and her wings fail her, will she remember why she calls herself an angel?