My Lady Selene

An engineer-astronaut shaped by a family legacy of exploration uses his talents in languages, navigation and electronics during a perilous lunar mission. Charged with the craft's communications, he secretly disables an automated master switch before descent, endures a blackout and impact, and awakens to a pale, opaque mist outside and unresponsive systems. The narrative blends technical detail, memory and quiet tension as the crew confronts survival, the consequences of deliberate interference with ship systems, and the unsettling prospect that the moon may not conform to commonly held assumptions about its nature.