Dr. Marchere knocks over his coffee mug inside deep space quadrant Brenda where there is supposedly nothing. The mug breaks but fixes itself moments later, puzzling the doctor. Meanwhile, Corporal Alice Aste arrives on her ship to find the Erwin, who has been sending strange messages back to the space station. Upon arriving at the Erwin, she notices the computer system is behaving strangely. There does not seem to be anyone on board either. She eventually finds the Captain, who says she had shot Ensign Anson, which she then does. The Captain gives Alice seemingly nonsensical answers to her questions about what is happening and where the crew is. He tells her to talk to Dr. Marchere in Narrative mode, where the computer narrates everything happening and said. Alice finds Marchere running every test possible in a lab when the ship's power source is off and using a battery which should not be possible. Dr. Marchere explains that the void in the quadrant is changing the laws of physics to some different type of physics and that he has been recording his findings. He believes it has only been a day, but Alice explains it has been six weeks. All of the other crew members were unmade by the changed physics of the ship, and the ship itself was altered, beginning to disappear. Dr. Marchere is unmade while talking to Alice resulting in her attempt to leave the changing ship. Alice navigates the ship, but the altered physics, merging, and missing rooms make it difficult for her to go. The ship's narrative mode reveals information that helps her leave the ship as the void absorbs it with the transport craft she came from her ship on. She uses combustion packs to get back to her ship and wakes up in a hospital room. The doctor says she was on the Erwin for a week, and the crew has many questions. She is given a glass of water which she accidentally drops and breaks. The cup reforms, and she asks the computer if it has a narrative mode signifying they are still near the void.