The Deep end
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.
“Nobody, or no one?” He thought again as he starred out the portal window. The scene below hadn’t changed much. Most of the view being taken up with the large planet, that their craft was currently orbiting. Sometimes he couldn’t avoid the thought, the same thought, a question in his head really, “Are we just an expanding race, colonizing the galaxy, or are we a virus? Spreading across the cosmos.” Depending on his mood the answer to that question was sometimes “yes” to the latter.